(Des Moines, Iowa) - Maintaining good physical, financial and mental health is not always easy, which is why The Principal Financial Group ® is offering additional discounts and services to insurance customers with group life, disability, dental or vision coverage. These discounted services and special products will provide help with everything from weight loss to smoking cessation with trusted names like Weight Watchers and the American Cancer Society.
"At The Principal, we are committed to transforming health by finding new ways to help our customers stay healthy," said Deanna Strable, senior vice president of the Specialty Benefits Division of the Principal Financial Group. "In addition to several new services we introduced last year, we are now extending services and discounts originally developed for our medical customers to all of our group insurance customers."
Individuals covered under group life, disability, dental and vision policies now have access to a number of discounts and services including:
Weight Loss - Insurance customers can now lose weight with help from Weight Watchers including an online program at a reduced rate.
Originally provided only to group disability customers, last year The Principal ® extended its Employee Assistance Program (EAP) from Magellan Health Services to customers experiencing a long-term disability, offering solutions-focused consultation for all types of personal issues. In addition, through the VSP Access Plan, group vision and dental customers receive discounts on LASIK surgery, eye exams, prescription glasses and contact lens evaluations.
Going beyond just customers, The Principal also extended support to life insurance beneficiaries who now have access to grief support services and a free financial services hotline to help these individuals plan for their financial future.
"Achieving and maintaining good health makes good sense. Whether it´s physical or financial wellbeing, we´ll continue to look for ways to add discounts and features that help our customers stay healthy," said Strable.
About the Principal Financial Group
The Principal Financial Group (The Principal ®) [1] is a leader in offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement and investment services, life and health insurance, and banking through its diverse family of financial services companies and national network of financial professionals. A member of the Fortune 500, the Principal Financial Group has $205.3 billion in assets under management [2]and serves some 16.0 million customers worldwide from offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Principal Financial Group, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PFG. For more information, visit www.principal.com.
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