Employer Sponsored Benefits: Short Term Disability

InTen Benefits As a company who hires quality employees, you are looking for the best benefits package for those employees.   We offer a full range of group benefits that are provided by you the employer.


Short Term Disability – Short term disability is so valuable that I would rate if right behind your medical plan!   Most of us insure our homes, cars, health, eyes and teeth, but we forget to insure the income that provides the above items.  Most plans are based on either a flat rate or 60% of their gross income up to a maximum per week.   Also most plans offer a variety of options for when the benefits would begin.  For example, a 0/7/26 plan would start paying benefits for a covered accident the first day the employee is out and start on the 8th day paying for a covered sickness or surgery up to 26 weeks per year.  There are other options available. 

Most employees these days do not have a “nest egg” to pull from if they are out of work for a week or more.  (Some not even for a few days!)  Statistics show 4 in 10 U.S. workers often or always live paycheck to paycheck (Careerbuilders.com Survey 2007); disability causes nearly 50% of all mortgage foreclosures, compared to 2% caused by death (Health Affairs Feb 2, 2005) and half of all personal U.S. bankruptcies, affecting 2 million people annually, were attributable to illness or medical bills (MarketWatch Feb 2, 2005)

More than 80% of working Americans don’t have disability income insurance or aren’t covered adequately. (National Underwriter magazine May 2001)


If you would like more information about group/employer paid benefits, please take a minute and go to the contact section of our site and send us an email.  We will be glad to schedule a 20 to 30 minute fact finding meeting with you.