Group Life Insurance

Group Life cover helps an employee’s family cope financially and emotionally following an untimely death. It’s a simple benefit and normally the amount paid is based on multiples of salary. As a benefit, it helps show you care and often forms a core element of a modern benefits package.

And with a complete and comprehensive Group Life support service, it’ll help you to attract, nurture, reassure and retain your people, at a time it’s never been so important.

At MetLife we acknowledge the challenges smaller businesses face. We understand staff are the engines of the business and their wellbeing is vitally important.

With MetLife Group Life policies covering fewer than 1,000 employees, we provide our Group Life Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) at no additional cost. It provides an impartial person to talk to and offers support and information 365 days a year, 24/7. So you can be sure that your employees have the support they need, when they need it most. Plus, their loved ones in the same household receive complimentary access to the service too.

In addition to this, your employees and their families can access our market-leading virtual GP service, GP24, whenever they need it. With same-day GP access, unlimited consultations, open referrals, local prescription delivery and second medical opinions, it’s a benefit that helps you show how much you care for your employees.

Learn more about GP24 or our SME EAP.

Bereavement is something none of us like to think about but you can benefit from being prepared should an employee pass away. Our bereavement and probate service helps to let employees know support is there should they need it, whenever they need it.

Our comprehensive support provides employees and their families:

• A unique Funeral Concierge service provided by Everest, with 24/7 independent expert advisors to help empower families to make thought-out decisions about the funeral process
• Up to 6 face-to-face counselling sessions a year
• Telephone support helpline, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Practical probate support from trained legal consultants to help the deceased’s relatives deal with practical issues including registering a death, advice on what to do if a will has not been left, closing bank accounts and managing the estate.

We offer a range of tools to support employers and employees at this difficult time. See the resources below for more information.