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The ABI and Government have signed a joint Statement of Intent setting out steps needed to help people understand their long term care costs and plan to ensure adequate funding.

The government has published a new strategy setting out ideas to help more disabled people and those with health conditions get into and stay in work.

Pensioners could have to pay out £150,000 on long-term care before the government will step in, according to the Labour party.

The government has extended the £500 tax relief for employer funded return to work treatments to include all those arranged by employer occupational health services.

The Government has announced the introduction of a cap on total welfare spending.

Aviva and Legal and General are among the six insurers that have agreed to collectively invest £25bn in UK infrastructure over the next five years.

People on sickness benefits will be required to have regular meetings with healthcare professionals or face losing benefits - in a two-year pilot scheme in central England, beginning in November.

The financial benefit cap came into place across the country at the end of September the Government has announced.

Citizens Advice has warned the welfare system must take the needs of those who use it into account, as George Osborne announced a new ‘Help to Work' programme aimed at the long-term unemployed.

Macmillan has warned the Cancer Drugs Fund is not secure for the long term.