Having been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, James was told by doctors that he’d ‘just have to cope’ with the symptoms he was suffering, including concentration difficulties, severe back pain and really low moods. Here he describes how Unum’s rehabilitation team helped him re-build his confidence and get his life back on track.
As a self-employed sales representative, Mervyn took out an Income Protection policy to give him and his family a back-up plan if anything happened that meant he was unable to work. Having fallen from a tree and sustained a spinal cord injury, Mervyn describes how his Income Protection plan provided financial help many times over as complications of his injury emerged.
When Claire was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) she was devastated that she’d have to leave her job of 12 years - a job she loved. But with financial and rehabilitation support from Unum, a caring employer and a heap of determination, Claire’s diagnosis of CFS hasn’t stopped her returning to the job she loved.
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Income protection specialist, Unum, has signalled its commitment to focusing on the employer-paid benefits market with the removal from sale of its Individual income protection products. It is retaining its market-leading Executive income protection offering, which is an employer paid product that will be offered alongside its award-winning Group products.