Financial and emotional support when a critical illness strikes
Group critical illness cover
Financial and practical help for employees diagnosed with a critical illness that they’re covered for. When a claim is accepted, we’ll pay out a tax-free lump sum, providing much needed financial reassurance. For employees we’re covering, we’ll cover their eligible children as standard too.
Group critical illness cover explained

Key documents
Get a quote
For Group Critical Illness Cover quotes please contact your account manager or email us.
Product details
Minimum policy size | From 10 employees. |
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Maximum policy size | No maximum. |
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Types and amount of benefit available | For employees - up to £500,000, or five times scheme earnings, whichever is lower. For spouses and registered civil partners - up to £250,000. |
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Children’s cover | The children of an insured employee are included as standard from birth to age 21. The amount of cover payable for an eligible child is the lower of 25% of the insured employee’s cover and £20,000. |
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Cover for spouse, partner or registered civil partner | An employee’s spouse, partner or registered civil partner can be covered for an additional cost. |
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Benefit levels | Choose different benefit levels for defined groups of employees. |
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Number of conditions covered | Core cover – 15 conditions Additional cover – an extra 27 conditions, covering 42 conditions in total Children are covered for the same conditions as the insured employee. Plus, we also provide an additional 6 child-only core conditions. |
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Free limit | This is the maximum amount of cover we can provide before we ask for medical underwriting. Up to £500,000 benefit for employees depending on policy size and benefit choices. |
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Employee eligibility | All employees, or a clearly defined group of employees. |
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Age range | 16 to 70. Maximum of state pension age for terminal illness and total and permanent disability conditions. |
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Premium payments | Can be made monthly or annually. |
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Cover during temporary absence | Continued up to benefit termination age if absence is due to an illness or injury. Continued for three years if absence is for any other reason, such as sabbatical. Options to continue cover for other durations are also available. |
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Overseas cover | Continues during overseas business trips. Cover for overseas workers, residents and secondments individually considered. |
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Pre-existing conditions exclusion | We won’t pay benefit for any specified condition for an insured person that was diagnosed or before they were covered by the scheme:
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Related conditions exclusion | The related conditions exclusion means we won’t pay benefit for any insured condition occurring within two years of an insured person being covered by the scheme that resulted from any related condition. The exclusion will apply even if a diagnosis has not been made before the insured person was covered. |
Conditions covered
Core cover
Additional cover
Family cover
Wellbeing support
Keep employees well with active wellbeing management through our comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme. Expert medical, practical and emotional support to help employees manage their illness is also available.

Make a claim
Get in touch about a claim as soon as possible, so we can offer support to employees straightaway. We can help them source the support they need and smooth the payment process.

Contact us
Adviser queries
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