The service gives access to specialised advice and vocational support for members diagnosed with a critical illness. Members are offered a phone consultation with a CISS support adviser who is a registered...
The service, called Healthsmart, integrates occupational health, absence management and employee benefits, using defined referral triggers and pro-active processes to manage both short and long-term absence. Healthsmart gives employees access to support...
Assuming employment rates by age remain the same, this would imply a fall of 45,000 (-2 per cent) in total employment compared with a 1.7 million (+6 per cent) rise across the...
The report says many consumers still see the Maxwell scandal as the most enduring image of the pensions industry, creating a consensus that pensions are insecure and open to corruption and mismanagement....
A false dawn?There have been false dawns before. But we believe this time is different for three reasons: Firstly, the strength of the BJP government is unprecedented. Secondly, the electorate has voted...
The provider will continue to pay ongoing commission on schemes below the charge cap until April 2016, but will where commission takes charges above the cap, this will be removed from April...
Evidence of this can be seen in research from Group Risk Development (GRiD). In its Group Risk Employer Research, which was conducted last October, it found that a quarter (24 per cent)...
Publishing its report into fiduciary duties today, the Law Commission recommended the Department for Work and Pensions should include transaction charges within the charge cap in its 2017 review. It also says...
There are two fundamental things that I think the guidance guarantee must deliver, and these are absolute deal breakers for me: it must tempt people to participate and everyone who needs to...
The Chancellor’s Budget day announcement that the Government intends to scrap most of the restrictions which govern how people can receive their pensions savings has turned the world of workplace pensions on...
