Group income protection

Designed to provide employees with a regular income if they cannot work because of long-term sickness or injury. Includes rehabilitation support to help employees back to work where appropriate, at no extra cost.

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Be well

Employees get access to a comprehensive health and wellbeing toolkit to help them with a range of topics and issues whilst supporting you to manage absence rates.

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Get better

We understand the importance of early intervention and provide appropriate support to help employees return to work as quickly and effectively as possible.

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Be supported

For employees who can’t return to work because of long-term sickness or injury, we pay out a regular income to help financially support them through a difficult time.

Group income protection explained

Group income protection explained video

Reasons to buy income protection

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Supports your duty of care

From day one, your employees have access to wellbeing services designed to keep them engaged and productive.

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Reduce the impact of long-term absence

Structured return to work support through our comprehensive rehabilitation services can help employees back to work sooner.

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Helps attract and retain great employees

Stand out from the crowd by showing that you take your employees’ wellbeing seriously

Features and benefits

For employers

  • Mental Health training for line managers and HR
  • Early intervention advice through our Be Well Helpline
  • Individual return to work plans for each employee where needed
  • A wealth of resources in our Be Well Hub
  • Support with communicating benefits to employees
  • Management information about the Employee Assistance Programme
  • Wellbeing Advisory Board for expert advice about health and wellbeing issues.

For employees

  • Regular financial payout through your company’s payroll. Payments are made to your organisation for distribution to the employee
  • Employee Assistance Programme with day-to-day health and wellbeing support with Spectrum.Life 
  • 24/7 Virtual GP
  • Mental health early intervention support, including counselling
  • Online Physiotherapy Service
  • Long term chronic condition support with CONNECTPlus app
  • Medigo Medical Healthcare, with access to second medical opinions, medical concierge service and nurse support services
  • Access to occupational health specialists, occupational therapists, registered nurses and physiotherapists when a claim is approved
  • Help supporting elderly loved ones with Care Concierge
  • Access to discounts and offers on a range of Legal & General products and services.

Wellbeing support

Keep employees well with active wellbeing management through our comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme. And should they become unwell, we provide mental health therapy, 24/7 access to a virtual GP and back to work support with our rehabilitation services at no extra cost to employer or employee.

Wellbeing support for Group income protection
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Product details

For policies of three employees or more

Who can be insured?
  • You can choose different benefit levels for defined groups of employees.
  • Benefits can be paid up until the benefit termination age or for a maximum of 2, 3, 4 or 5 years.
How much can they be insured for?
  • The maximum cover for an employee is £350,000 a year.
  • Employer and employee pension contributions can also be covered, up to a total of £75,000 a year.
  • The total cover for an employee’s benefit plus their own pension contributions, cannot be more than 80% of their scheme earnings.
  • Employer NI contributions can also be covered.
  • Plus, we offer options where the amount we cover includes deductions for state benefits.
  • You can also choose to increase benefits by a fixed rate up to 5% each year, or the Retail Price Index (RPI) or Consumer Price Index (CPI) by up to 5% each year.

Our technical guide (1.7mb pdf) can help provide more details about the cover, the options, the exclusions and how claims are assessed.
Is there any medical underwriting?
  • Typically, we can provide cover for each employee for up to £150,000 per year without the need for medical underwriting. The limit depends on the size of the policy and the benefit choices.
  • Employees will be medically underwritten if their cover is above the ‘free limit’. We can provide cover temporarily for up to 90 days whilst medical underwriting is completed, subject to conditions and criteria.

Make a claim

Get in touch about a claim as soon as possible, so we can offer support to employees from day one of their long-term illness or injury. The sooner we’re involved and where appropriate, arrange suitable support for them, the more likely they could be able to return to work.

How to make a claim

Need help?

Employer toolkit library

Employer toolkit

Extensive resources in our Be well hub, plus your toolkit for communicating to employees and support for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs).

Your employer toolkit
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Document library

Literature and forms for our group protection products in one place.

Document library

Our products

Group Life, Group Critical Illness and Group Income Protection for businesses large and small.

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Contact us

Employer queries

Group.protection@landg.com

0345 072 0751

Lines are open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday.

We may record and monitor calls.