Holloway launches advice service

Advisers can access the Care First package for their clients through Holloway’s ‘member support package’.

Holloway has teamed up with Care First an advice, information and support service that can be accessed online or via telephone, typetalk and minicom for people with hearing difficulties.

It is available for every policy holder free of charge as part of Holloway Friendly’s ‘Members Assistance Programme’.

Mat Manser, sales and marketing director for Holloway Friendly, said: “As an income protection provider, Holloway Friendly looks after clients in times of stress and so recognises the huge affect this can have on personal and professional relationships we therefore understand the value that access to this sort of service can add to someone’s life when they need it most.

“Holloway is always looking for more holistic ways to support its membership and the advisers who introduce them to us.

“Our members are usually in touch with us at difficult times, their circumstances may have changed and they sometimes find it hard to plan or deal with these changes.

“The launch of this new support package gives members professional advice and support whenever they need it, whether or not they are making a claim and it gives advisers a value add to provide their clients with.”

The trained Care First advisers will help policy holders with all work place issues, from bullying to sick pay, with debt problems and with family and personal issues covering everything from divorce and bereavement to childcare and community care.

Policy holders will have access to a professional counselling service; dedicated telephone advisers will provide information and support, while a wealth of resources are also available on the specialist Care First website.

As well as the added benefit to clients that the Care First package provides, advisers get direct access to the underwriter of their client’s policy and a guarantee of no dual pricing as Holloway Friendly only sells through advisers.