Eye-Opening Long and Short-Term Disability Benefits Secrets That They Don't Want You to Know

Remember those insurance commercials featuring the "Good Hands" characters. Those were the days when a cup of coffee was 50 cents, the milkman delivered, and people expected to retire from the same company where they had come up from the Mail Room. But this is the 21st Century; it costs 50 cents to put air in your tires, and your chances for freedom at 65 seem about equal to winning the provincial lottery. Competition is in; fairness out, especially for the ill and disabled. In this age of rapidly developing trends, a dark side has emerged from the corporate obsession with downsizing, restructuring , and competitiveness. More and more individuals who find themselves unable to function due to an injury, illness, or depression feel that there is a battle between their employer and the disability insurer to show them the back of their hand and the door. For many of these people, actual employment termination is only the lowest stage in a long, stressful period. ...