{"id":642923,"date":"2026-06-17T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642923\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:04:08","slug":"uk-group-risk-industry-pays-out-record-2-69-billion-industry-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642923\/","title":{"rendered":"UK group risk industry pays out record \u00a32.69 billion: Industry body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record payouts by product line<\/p>\n<p>Group life assurance drove the bulk of total claims, paying out \u00a31.825 billion across 12,730 claims, an increase of \u00a388.9 million on 2024. Group income protection policies paid \u00a3670.7 million across 17,403 claims in payment, a modest decrease of \u00a33.8 million year-on-year, with 7,920 new GIP claims lodged during 2025 averaging \u00a329,026 per claimant. Group critical illness policies paid out \u00a3190.8 million across 2,475 claims, up \u00a311.6 million on the prior year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record payouts by product line Group life assurance drove the bulk of total claims, paying out \u00a31.825 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,19486,216779,216778,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-grid","tag-group-income-protection","tag-group-risk-sector","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}