Sun Life has announced the results of a two-month campaign to encourage paperless claims, reporting that over 50,000 group benefits plan members have registered for direct deposit and paperless claim statements.
So far, almost 600,000 Sun Life group benefit plan members have registered for paperless claim statements.
“As a company concerned about the health and well-being of Canadians, we know it’s important to pursue environmentally friendly business practices that make it easy for clients to do business with us, as well as decrease our corporate carbon footprint,” said Stuart Monteith, senior vice-president, group benefits, Sun Life Financial Canada. “At Sun Life, we feel it’s our responsibility to contribute to providing a better quality of life for current and future generations.”
To compound the environmental benefit of going paperless, Sun Life has donated $1 for each plan member that registered to Tree Canada. The $50,000 donation will fund the planting and maintenance of 12,580 new trees.
By switching to paperless claim statements, clients will help save 240 trees, or 19,200,000 pieces of paper, per year. Such a stack of paper would be 3.5 times the height of the CN Tower.
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