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AHIP Posts Disability Chart Book On Web

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NU Online News Service, Nov. 18, 2004, 8:28 p.m. EST

Few U.S. workers understand how little protection they have against disability.[@@]

America’s Health Insurance Plans, Washington, has published data supporting that conclusion in a report on a survey of 800 full-time U.S. workers conducted in August by researchers at Ayres, McHenry and Associates, Alexandria, Va.

Some survey findings:

- 58% of the participants believed they had disability coverage, when the reality is that only 35% have disability coverage.

- 30% of workers over 30 will experience a disability that keeps them from working for at least 3 months at some point in their careers, but only 35% of the survey participants said the risk of disability is over 20%.

- 10% of workers who take injury-related disability leaves of more than 3 months get workers’ compensation. Only 22% of the survey participants said the percentage of injury-related disability leaves was under 20%.

AHIP sponsored the survey to help draw attention to a new disability insurance fact book developed by AHIP; the Society of Actuaries, Schaumburg, Ill.; and the Actuarial Foundation, Schaumburg, Ill.

The chart book is on the Web at //www.ahip.org/redirect/AHIPDIChartBook.pdf