U.S. workers tend to put more emphasis on short-term financial fears than on income protection insurance.
Executives at Assurant Employee Benefits, Kansas City, Mo., a unit of Assurant Inc., New York, have published that finding in a summary of results from a March telephone survey of 1,001 U.S. workers ages 18 and older.
About 51% said the top financial concern they would face if they lost a job would be the inability to pay for housing, and 25% said a medical emergency or accident would be the top concern,