Auto enrolment in insurance product preferred
£500 million to be spent over next three years on improving housing
Breaks manifesto pledge
Social care funding gap stands at £7bn
Employers are not doing enough to support employees mental and physical health as NHS struggles, research by Westfield Health has found
The NHS will offer help and support for workplace incentives to promote employee health and cut sickness-related unemployment.
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has suggested a "pragmatic" cut to National Insurance Contribution (NICs) rates.
Labour says that it may consider offering incentives for firms providing health and wellbeing benefits to staff and to those organisations paying a living wage were it to win the next general election.
The government was in listening mode at the launch of a report to tackle state dependency and potential National Insurance rebates for income protection policyholders in Westminster today.