Disability Coverage Information
Sunday, September 21st, 2003In federal law, disability is an impairment, either physical or mental, that substantially inhibits a person in a major way. As such, a disabled person is not necessarily born that way. Something may have happened to hinder him from performing normal activities. The Benefits Plan also takes this into consideration. In the Article II, Section 2.1 (1) definition, disability is an inability of a person to perform substantially all of the material duties of a person s regular work that would have afforded a reasonable amount of income due to any medically determinable impairment, which can be expected to result in the demise of the person or which may last or is expected to last for not less than a year. Any such person is eligible for a Disability Coverage or Disability Insurance.
There are two kinds of disability coverage - the short-term and the long-term.
Any physical damage, illness, or pregnancy resulting in total disability for less or exactly 180 days falls under Short-term disability in (more...)
