A very important part of your protection package, Income Protection protects a percentage of your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury. It is designed to kick in as your employer’s sick pay stops. At the outset, you choose whether you want this to run for two years, five years or until retirement. This type of protection is often overlooked, but the fact of the matter is that you are more likely to get ill in service than to die.
Many brokers will claim to offer ‘whole of market,’ but that may just mean that they offer every kind of product, but that they are all from the same insurer. Independent means that we can offer every kind of product from every insurer.
Sometimes it seems that there are almost as many financial advisors as there are financial products. Why should you choose us. We think there are many reasons of course, but among the most important are the following:
This last is perhaps the most important. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. If we did not give our customers great service, they simply would not return.
Coran worked as a bank manager for 20 years, on the South Coast and in London. She was made redundant in 2019, moved into the world of Business Development Management, joining Protection and investment in 2023. She is delighted to return to her roots to selling financial services, which is something she has done for 27 years. She specialises in protection, especially for business owners and teams, helping owners protect the business, themselves, their family and their staff. She has teenage twins – a boy and a girl – and a dog called Branston. She loves hosting events.
Joe Bloggs, Managing Director
It covers most illnesses or injuries that leave you incapacitated and unable to work. All policies also cover mental health conditions, provided they are diagnosed by a medical professional. The policy may come with exclusions for any pre-existing medical condition that you or an immediate family member may have already experienced.
No. Standard income protection policies do not cover unemployment or redundancy.
Policies typically pay out between 50% and 70% of your gross pre-incapacity income, averaged over the last three years. This accounts for the fact that you may not be paying certain work-related costs like daily commutes.
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