
Momentum’s critical illness claims top R1bn in 2025
Higher critical illness and disability payouts reflect a risk environment increasingly defined by prolonged recovery, income loss, and ongoing care costs.

Higher critical illness and disability payouts reflect a risk environment increasingly defined by prolonged recovery, income loss, and ongoing care costs.

CEO Jeanette Marais says Momentum will ‘invest aggressively in advice’ in its effort to strengthen VNB and long-term competitiveness.

Momentum’s 2023 statistics show that 57% of death benefit claims were due to cardiac and cancer events, yet less than 81% of these claimants had critical illness cover.