disability insurance protects your
income if a disability or illness
prevents you from completing the core
functions of your work most people don't
realize the risk of becoming disabled
permanently or temporarily at some point
in their lives but the reality is that
at age 40 your chances of becoming
disabled for 90 days or more prior to
age 65 is 43% there are two types of
disability insurance short term and long
term short term disability pays you
benefits sooner and for a shorter period
of time then long term disability
insurance let's talk about short term
disability insurance and why it's such
an important employee benefit short term
disability is an insurance plan that is
designed to replace a portion of your
paycheck if you are unable to work due
to an off the job sickness or accident
if you are unable to work your paychecks
may stop but your financial
responsibilities do not short term
disability insurance protects your
paycheck and it's one of the most
important insurance plans you can
purchase short term disability covers
issues such as back problems knee
disorders accidents for surgeries that
lay you up and sicknesses such as cancer
strokes mental illness or heart attacks
pregnancy is also covered under short
term disability the typical short term
disability plan replaces 50 or 60
percent of your earnings and begins
paying a certain number of days
following the
you will then be able to collect for a
number of weeks perhaps 13 weeks or 26
weeks depending on your company's plan
you will want to learn more about
whether the benefits received with your
company's short term disability plan
will be considered taxable income also
find out if the plan has a pre-existing
condition exclusion which means that it
won't cover conditions that you already
have when you sign up for the plan
consider short term disability for peace
of mind and financial protection without
this coverage you could be left worrying
about how to survive financially at a
time when you need to focus on getting
better