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Critical Illness Stats: - One in three people in Britain will have a cancer diagnosed at some time during their life. (1) - Every year, around 300,000 people have heart attacks. For 150,000 people, it is their first. Half of all heart attacks are fatal. (2) - Of those women who are diagnosed with breast cancer, 62% survive five years or more. (3) - Between 1986 and 1996, the death rate declined about 25% for heart attacks and almost 15% for strokes (4) - Less than 10% of all strokes are fatal (5) - The survival rate for cancer is almost 50% higher than in 1950 (6) - The possibility of surviving a critical illness before age 65 is almost twice as great as dying(7) Income Protection Stats: Recent research by the Fabian Society has revealed the following startling facts about income protection plans: - One in four employees believe that they would receive a full year’s salary from their employer if they were to become ill (most companies only pay up to three months) - Two out of three workers do not know how much state benefits would pay. - Four out of five workers worry about their income. - Two out of three workers have no income protection plan. - 60% of workers believed it to be very important to take out their own income protection plan. - When told the facts of State benefits 72% of all workers believed that it was less than enough to live on.
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