Income Protection

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Our new Income Protection Benefit Plan has been awarded a 5 Star Rating by Defaqto and is fully integrated with OLP Connect, so it offers great protection for your clients and a bigger business opportunity for you. It's Income Protection 2.0 - upgraded, expanded and easier to use.

what is income protection?

Income protection pays out a monthly benefit for your clients if they are unable to work due to incapacity caused by illness or injury. Your clients can use this benefit in any way they like - from helping towards paying the mortgage repayments, household bills or covering medical care, to simply helping to maintain their lifestyle. This benefit is paid until they recover and can return to work or they no longer qualify.

What's new?

We've made our Income Protection Benefit Plan more competitive through various product enhancements and a comprehensive range of benefits and options:

  • 5 Star Rating from Defaqto, which makes our Income Protection Benefit Plan one of the best available in the market.
  • Fully integrated with OLP Connect so you can sell it alongside our award-winning Term and Critical Illness Cover. We've also introduced tele medical interviewing for our income protection policy to help speed up the application process.
  • Extended eligibility - we've increased the expiry age to 70, so your clients can be covered for longer.
  • Maximum monthly benefit has been increased to £200,000 a year.
  • New Guaranteed Insurability Option events giving your clients greater flexibility to help keep their cover in line with their earnings with no further underwriting required.
  • We've removed all exclusions except one (Drugs and Alcohol abuse) for greater transparency.
  • Discounting is available if purchased with other protection products within a menu application.
  • Re-priced our product to provide more competitive premiums for your clients.

As with all insurance policies, terms and conditions apply. Please refer to the Key Features Document for full details of the benefits and exclusions.

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income protection benefit calculator

This calculator is for illustrative purposes only and based on Income Tax and State benefit rates for the year 2009/2010. All figures are approximate and based on the assumptions below. For more accurate figures please check with the relevant organisations, for example the HMRC. Tax rules and benefits may change. No allowance has been made for Child Tax Credit which may be applicable.

National insurance contributions are assumed for all occupations. It is assumed the customer stays on the same NI class whilst not working. They don't pay NI contributions on Income Protection benefits at claim time.

* We have assumed the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Related Activity Group benefit of £89.80 per week = £389.13 per month entitlement to State benefits is dependent on meeting strict eligibility criteria. ESA is only payable if your client meets the threshold of incapacity under the Work Capability Assessment. Any ESA received is liable to income tax. Further information on ESA can be found at The Department for Work and Pensions: www.dwp.gov.uk/employment-and-support

**The benefit payable under a Legal & General income protection policy may be reduced in some circumstances. Please see our key features document for more information on the policy benefits and limitations.

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For further information about the benefits and limitations of the plan, and for copies of our new Income Protection Benefit Plan sales literature, please speak to your usual Legal & General contact or the IFA Protection Sales Team on 0845 273 0010 or email ifaprotection@landg.com.

Lines are open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm. We may record and monitor calls.

sales literature

Learn more about what's changed in our new Income Protection Benefit Plan and why you should consider adding it to your product range. We've developed the following material for you and your clients.

Income protection support pack containing:

Additional literature:

This is not a consumer advertisement. It is intended for professional financial advisers and should not be relied upon by private individuals or any other persons.