Im guessing thay you’re in the US and you’re referring to “long term disability insurance”. To anyone else in the US considering LTD and thinking “$25 is a lot a month, I could afford it but the insurance doesn’t seem that important.” Please look into the rules in your area. In some cases, if you don’t have LTD you’re health insurance ends when your Short term disability ends if you cannot still return to work at that time. LTD may keep your health insurance going in a time when you will most need it for you and/or your family. It could mean the difference between being back at work in 2 years and losing everything. If you can afford it you should probably get LTD.
So I guess I am lucky that my employer offers basic LTD? For me the 30 bucks is the supplemental add on to get the standard 40% salary coverage increases to 60%. To me that’s 600 or 700 bucks a year in cost that is going to be the difference of thousands of dollars a month if I end up needing LTD.
Im guessing thay you’re in the US and you’re referring to “long term disability insurance”. To anyone else in the US considering LTD and thinking “$25 is a lot a month, I could afford it but the insurance doesn’t seem that important.” Please look into the rules in your area. In some cases, if you don’t have LTD you’re health insurance ends when your Short term disability ends if you cannot still return to work at that time. LTD may keep your health insurance going in a time when you will most need it for you and/or your family. It could mean the difference between being back at work in 2 years and losing everything. If you can afford it you should probably get LTD.
So I guess I am lucky that my employer offers basic LTD? For me the 30 bucks is the supplemental add on to get the standard 40% salary coverage increases to 60%. To me that’s 600 or 700 bucks a year in cost that is going to be the difference of thousands of dollars a month if I end up needing LTD.
In my case, LTD did not enable me to keep my health insurance, but it did enable me to keep receiving some income.