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'''UNUM or Unum Group''' (formerly UnumProvident Corporation) is an insurance company operating in several countries including the [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unum.co.uk/ | title = Employee benefits that protect businesses and their staff - Unum | last =Unum | first = | authorlink = UNUM | date = |website=unum.co.uk|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2019-03-05}}</ref> UNUM UK describes itself as an "employee benefits provider" and provides illness and disability benefits, including ill health retirement pensions. ==ME/CFS and UK welfare reforms== * In 2007 [[Malcolm Hooper]] claimed to the UK parliament that UNUM's CFS Management Plan Stated "UNUM stands to lose millions if we do not move quickly to address this increasing problem".<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhealth/503/503we79.htm Evidence submitted by Professor Malcolm Hooper (NICE 07)]</ref> This report also claimed that chronic fatigue syndrome was "neurosis under a new banner".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pacegranskaren.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/unum-chronic-fatigue-manqement-program.pdf | title = Chronic Fatigue Management Program | last =UNUM | first = | authorlink = UNUM | date = 1995 | website = |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2019-03-04|quote=neurosis with a new banner}}</ref> * In 2007 the BBC reported on the connections between UNUM in relation to the UK welfare reforms <ref>http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/by-az/deleted-bbc-news-item-on-unum.html</ref>. It was removed later when researchers began referencing it but the transcript was preserved. * In 2008 Jonathan Rutherford examined the connections between Unum and the UK government to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits in [http://www.midmoors.co.uk/Unum/unum_in_uk.pdf New Labour, the market state,and the end of welfare] and in the Guardian article [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/mar/17/epluribusunum E pluribus Unum] . * In 2011 Private Eye examined Unum's media campaign promoted as the answer to the latest tough welfare reforms <ref>http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2011/11/private-eye-piece-on-unum-the-american-insurance-company-and-income-protection-cover-11-november-2011/</ref>. * In January 2015 Mo Steward published [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271199429_The_influence_of_the_private_insurance_industry_on_the_UK_welfare_reforms The influence of the private insurance industry on the UK welfare reforms] which examines the insurance industry and in particular Unum's connection to the BPS model and welfare reforms. == PACE trial == A number of researchers who have been paid to advise Unum on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome claims were authors of the controversial [[PACE trial]], including principal investigator [[Michael Sharpe]]. This conflict of interest was not disclosed to PACE trial participants. ==Litigation and US Regulatory Settlement in 2005== ==Online presence== [http://www.unum.com Website] [http://www.unum.co.uk UK Website] ==Learn more== *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum Wikipedia - UNUM] *[[The Centre for Welfare Reform]] * [http://www.whywaitforever.com/dwpatosbusinessunum.html Overview of Unum's business and the influence on UK welfard and disability] * [http://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/files/library/A-Tale-of-two-Models-Leeds1.pdf A Tale of two Models: Disabled People vs Unum, Atos, Government and Disability Charities] * [https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/rogue-company-unum-had-a-profiteering-hand-in-the-governments-work-health-and-disability-green-paper/ Rogue company Unum had a profiteering hand in the government’s work, health and disability green paper] * Private Eye Issue 1301 [http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1301&article=450 Mutual Benefits] * [http://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/files/library/FROM-BRITISH-WELFARE-STATE-TO-ANOTHER-AMERICAN-STATE-2013-3rd-edit-FINAL.pdf From the British Welfare State to another American State] *[http://www.redpepper.org.uk/getting-rich-on-disability-denial/ Getting rich on disability denial] ==See also== * [[Ethical issues]] * [[Stigma and discrimination]] * [[Mansel Aylward]] * [[Michael Sharpe]] * [[Simon Wessely]] * [[Biopsychosocial model]] * [[Department for Work and Pensions]] * [[PACE trial]] == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Insurance companies]]
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