26th May 2019
Comprehensive cover was the leading consumer choice in the UK in 2018, accounting for 42% of income protection purchases, according to GlobalData.
The company’s latest report: ‘How Customers Purchase Income Protection 2018’ reveals that job security concerns pushed consumers to favour comprehensive cover over just unemployment or accident and sickness.
Take-up of comprehensive cover increased by 9.4pp from 2017 as it overtook accident and sickness only in 2018. Income protection was most popular among adults with responsibilities, with 64.8% of customers having children and 68.8% owning a house with a mortgage, as their reliance on a guaranteed income is greater. Unsurprisingly, having a child was also the biggest trigger to make a consumer take-up income protection insurance as consumers take on a certain level of risk not having it in such situations.
Ben Carey-Evans, Insurance Analyst at GlobalData, comments “Comprehensive cover overtaking accident and sickness cover in 2018 shows that consumers are increasingly worried about job security. Although unemployment remains low in the UK, the uncertainty that surrounded Brexit throughout 2018 has almost certainly increased people’s concerns about the security of their jobs.”
GlobalData(20 articles)