state benefits

Cirencester Friendly's Paul Hudson shares top tips to help advisers increase protection revenue.

LV= has announced it will host nine seminars for advisers on how to boost income protection sales, around the UK.

The new bereavement support payment (BSP) will be be tax-free with a higher immediate payment, the draft Finance Bill clauses released by parliament have revealed.

Macmillan Cancer Support has highlighted continuing problems with the Personal Independence Payment, as highlighted by the Government's own Work and Pensions Committee (WPC), labelling claims backlogs as "appalling".

MPs have announced they are to undertake a Select Committee inquiry into the controversial Work Capability Assessments (WCA).

Income protection (IP) has scope for a money-back guarantee so the premium is returned to the consumer in the event it does not pay out as expected, delegates heard at the launch of the IPTF's Signposts for Income Protection.

The department of Work and Pensions has published the Social security benefits up-rating for 2014 in a written Ministerial Statement.

Further details about the government's new Health and Work Service (HWS) have been published along with a substantial report examining the potential value of using telephone services to provide health and return to work support.

Disability rights UK has announced a national campaign highlighting the benefits of the welfare state.

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