Short term/long term disability has also been broken for years. Like so many things, it seems all the money involved in administering it goes to trying to not pay out any money.
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Ginger - Oct 19, 2011 7:45:45 am PDT #1246 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Kate P. - Oct 19, 2011 8:08:25 am PDT #1247 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
My maternity leave is going to be covered by short-term disability, which my company just got basically so that I could have any maternity leave at all. For which I'm quite grateful. But the policy they chose, although it goes up to 12 weeks for illness or injury, only gives 5 weeks of paid maternity leave. (Well, I'd get more if there were complications with delivery, but let's hope that doesn't happen...) Anyway, am I crazy to think that 5 weeks is, like, no time at all?? I suppose I'm lucky that my boss will let me take vacation/personal time and unpaid leave to supplement it, so I'm hoping I can take maybe three months altogether, but they'll be a fairly lean three months.
le nubian - Oct 19, 2011 8:09:12 am PDT #1248 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
did I mention that my appendectomy two years ago was disallowed
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Burrell - Oct 19, 2011 8:15:25 am PDT #1249 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
5 weeks would be hard, Kate. I say take more time even if it's unpaid if you can afford it.
meara - Oct 19, 2011 8:17:38 am PDT #1250 of 30001
Sadly, I think most people I know have only gotten maybe 6 weeks paid (and usually supplemented that with vacation or whatever, and used FMLA for some unpaid time too)
Burrell - Oct 19, 2011 8:21:11 am PDT #1251 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I had 10 weeks paid leave, but I think 6 weeks is more common.
ChiKat - Oct 19, 2011 8:22:06 am PDT #1252 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I get irrational and stupidly angry about the insurance issue. Disallowing an appendectomy?? WTH?
Tom Scola - Oct 19, 2011 8:23:38 am PDT #1253 of 30001
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Having an appendix is a pre-existing condition.
ChiKat - Oct 19, 2011 8:24:53 am PDT #1254 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Having an appendix is a pre-existing condition.
Well, of course! I should have totally thought of that.
Kate P. - Oct 19, 2011 8:28:32 am PDT #1255 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
5 weeks would be hard, Kate. I say take more time even if it's unpaid if you can afford it.
Oh, I can't imagine going back after only 5 weeks, and we're lucky to have enough in savings to make it feasible for me to take several weeks unpaid. I just hate that the official paid leave is so little. Somehow I thought that 12 weeks was common, but now I'm not sure where I got that number.