UK AI Exposure · Administrative and secretarial occupations
Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants
Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants provide general clerical support to senior colleagues and perform specialist clerical tasks in relation to the administration of pensions and insurance policies.
- Employees (UK)
- 35k
- Median annual pay
- £29,329
- Exposure score ?
- 3.9/10 Low direct 3.9 · with tools 9.6
- Wage exposure
- £400m
Higher exposure than 93% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means
A handful of tasks in this role are touchable by AI, mostly around paperwork, scheduling and basic writing. The shape of the role stays the same - some parts just get faster.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
Pick the two or three most repetitive things in your week and try an LLM on them. Most people underestimate what Claude or ChatGPT can already do for admin-shaped work. The time you get back is the dividend.
The tasks in this role, ranked by AI exposure
Below are the real tasks O*NET records for this occupation, sorted highest exposure first. "AI can do this" means a language model can already handle the task directly. "AI can help" means an LLM can assist but not replace. "Human work" means today's AI doesn't touch it. Importance is O*NET's 1–5 rating of how central each task is to the role.
17 of 25 tasks in this role are things an AI can already do today. Task list mapped via O*NET "Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks" (43-9041.00).
Prepare insurance claim forms or related documents, and review them for completeness.
Pay small claims.
Post or attach information to claim file.
Transmit claims for payment or further investigation.
Review insurance policy to determine coverage.
Process, prepare, and submit business or government forms, such as submitting applications for coverage to insurance carriers.
Organize or work with detailed office or warehouse records, using computers to enter, access, search or retrieve data.
Correspond with insured or agent to obtain information or to inform them of account status or changes.
Review and verify data, such as age, name, address, and principal sum and value of property, on insurance applications and policies.
Compare information from application to criteria for policy reinstatement, and approve reinstatement when criteria are met.
Transcribe data to worksheets, and enter data into computer for use in preparing documents and adjusting accounts.
Obtain computer printout of policy cancellations, or retrieve cancellation cards from file.
Compose business correspondence for supervisors, managers, and professionals.
Notify insurance agent and accounting department of policy cancellation.
Calculate premiums, refunds, commissions, adjustments, or new reserve requirements, using insurance rate standards.
Enter insurance- and claims-related information into database systems.
Modify, update, or process existing policies and claims to reflect any change in beneficiary, amount of coverage, or type of insurance.
Calculate amount of claim.
Contact insured or other involved persons to obtain missing information.
Process and record new insurance policies and claims.
Provide customer service, such as limited instructions on proceeding with claims or referrals to auto repair facilities or local contractors.
Examine letters from policyholders or agents, original insurance applications, and other company documents to determine if changes are needed and effects of changes.
Collect initial premiums and issue receipts.
Interview clients and take their calls to provide customer service and obtain information on claims.
Organize or work with detailed office or warehouse records, maintaining files for each policyholder, including policies that are to be reinstated or cancelled.
Where a project with Alex usually starts for this role
These are the highest-importance tasks in this role that a language model can already handle directly. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these, so they stop eating your team's time.
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Prepare insurance claim forms or related documents, and review them for completeness.
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Pay small claims.
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Post or attach information to claim file.
Every role has three or four wedges like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days. Talk to Alex about a project →
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Methodology
This role's exposure score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 GPT task labels, aggregated by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 via ISCO-08 (ONS Vol 2 coding index) and US SOC 2010 (BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional. ASHE covers employees only, so self-employed workers are not counted.
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