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October 13, 2011 at 11:22 AM
The recession has driven home the idea that a paycheck really is the typical worker’s most valuable asset.
The Council for Disability Awareness (CDA), Portland, Maine — a group that tries to remind people that they ought to protect their incomes — warns in its latest awareness report that the number of workers with group long-term disability (LTD) coverage fell 0.8% in 2010.
The number fell because the number of workers with paychecks fell.
Employers and workers would be wise to consider trying to use voluntary LTD programs to fill in the gaps created by the weak economy, the CDA says.
Newspapers and court files are full of the stories of people who had trouble collecting on individual or LTD claims.
But, despite those stories, disability insurers did pay out more than $8 billion in desperately needed benefits last year to a total of 587,000 claimants.
