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Supporting your customers and building your business

Discover how Unum's products and services help your customers and how we can work with you to develop your business.

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What we do
Our insurance products and services

Our expertise as a specialist employee benefits provider can help you grow your business. Our products deliver value for your customers from the very start, backed up by a support network designed to guide you every step of the way.

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Group Income Protection

Helping employers manage sickness absence and the associated costs, Group Income Protection can provide rehabilitation and financial support when an employee is unable to work due to illness or injury.
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Group Critical Illness

Supporting employees through major, potentially life-changing illnesses, Group Critical Illness can provide financial, emotional, and practical support for employees who survive a covered critical illness for 14 days.
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Group Life

Giving employees and their family peace of mind, Group Life can pay a tax-free lump sum to employees' loved ones if the employee dies – as well as practical and emotional support.
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Dental Insurance

Our Dental cover helps make costly and essential dental treatment more affordable for employees.

Optical Cover

Helps employers support the eye health of their employees and manage their optical expenses by providing cover towards the cost of regular eye exams and corrective eyewear when required.
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Sick Pay Insurance

Our Sick Pay insurance can pay a percentage of your employee’s salary if illness or injury stops them working for the short term.

Why partner with us?
Industry-leading benefits, and health and wellbeing support

Help@hand app from Unum

Help@hand: practical, everyday employee support

Highly valued health and wellbeing support, including:

  • Unlimited mental health consultations1
  • Medical appointments — unlimited 24/7 remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and medical second opinions
  • 360 Wellbeing Score — four short assessments to get key insights into employees’ wellbeing and unlock 1-2-1 lifestyle coaching
  • A fully integrated Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with a 24/7 helpline for support on emotional and practical issues
  • Financial and legal guidance 
  • Everyday savings and discounts2
  • On-demand wellbeing content and resources
  • 1-2-1 personal training and nutritional consultations3

For details and eligibility of all services, see our dedicated Help@hand employee page.

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1 This service is suitable for mild to moderate issues. The number of sessions provided will be subject to clinical appropriateness. Should the service no longer be appropriate, you will be directed to alternative support.
2 Provided by BenefitHub. BenefitHub Ltd is registered in England & Wales under company number 11109677 and has its registered office at 2nd Floor Regis House, 45 King William Street, London, United Kingdom, EC4R 9AN.
3 Exclusive to Group Income protection policyholders

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Workplace wellbeing

Resources to help manage employee wellbeing, including online workshops, e-modules, research, absence management and return to work support.

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Mental Health and Cancer Pathways

Quick, easy and effective support for employers and employees for two of the most common claims, whenever it’s needed.

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Wellbeing calendar

An array of content for both employers and employees to support wellbeing in the workplace, including webinars, podcasts, articles and more

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Support every step of the way

Our team of expert consultants are on hand to guide you and your clients every step of the way. We’re here to help, whether you’re new to this market and looking to broaden your portfolio or are an experienced adviser interested in finding out more. 

We partner with our advisers to offer:

  • Joint client visits to support your conversations and answer any questions 
  • Dedicated Market Insight team to help you fully understand your client base and the opportunities available – including propensity to buy modelling, detailed management information and block analysis
  • Onboarding support via introductory Wellbeing Ready sessions and tailored resources to ensure your clients get the best value from their policy
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About us

  • We’re trusted by more than 10,000 businesses — including 39 of the FTSE 100 — to provide cover their employees
  • We insure more than 2 million employees and their families in the UK*
  • In 2022 we paid £395.6 million to our customers representing more than £7 million a week in benefits

* Unum internal data as at end of 2022. Figure represents the total number of lives under all policies and includes the total number of policies for an individual employee where they are insured under more than one product.

UnumOnline
Take control with UnumOnline

UnumOnline is our intuitive, easy-to-use digital adviser portal. It gives you control over the quoting, buying, renewal and service of your qualifying new and existing Unum customer policies.

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How we work with you
We’ll work to help you grow your business and protect your customers

We care passionately about helping people protect their livelihoods and things they love, and we hope it shows in the way we work with you and your clients.

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    Request a call

    Need more information about what our products and services can do for you and your clients? Get in touch and one of our dedicated sales consultants will get back to you.

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    Agree to our terms of business (TOBA)

    Before we can do business together, we first need to receive and accept your completed commission account form.

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    Register for UnumOnline

    Access our product portfolio, receive new quotes and manage existing quotes online – easily, quickly and efficiently.

Resources
Product forms and documents

Download our policy docs, Ts&Cs , user guides, claim forms, support tools and more.

Useful resources

Group Income Protection from Unum - Adviser Guide
Group Income Protection User Guide - UP841 02/2019
Group Critical Illness User Guide - UP845 08/2019
Group Life User Guide - UP1126 05/2018
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"I am always confident to recommend Unum. The service and proposition really supports my business - and my clients."
Matthew Egginton
Employee Benefits Consultant

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Upcoming events and webinars

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Mon, 6 Nov

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Tue, 5 Dec, 11:00

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News and articles
Latest news and articles for Advisers

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