Offering disability insurance for your employees is a smart thing to do. Your employees will appreciate the peace of mind short-term and long-term disability insurance policies bring to them. The world is full of chances, and a little bad luck can have far-reaching consequences. Disability insurance provides security—so long as your disability insurance policy is a good one, of course.
Many disability insurance policies aren’t quite as generous as they first appear. In fact, many of them contain inequality. If you scratch just below the surface, you’ll see this. The next question is what can you do about it?
How Inequality Happens
Imagine you’re reviewing two new disability insurance policies for your company. One offers employees 85 percent
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Most people will opt for Plan A, which offers 85 percent of wages to employees. After all, 85 percent is higher than 65 percent. Why would you offer your employees a lower percentage?
Take a close look. Plan A caps your employees’ benefits at $5,000 per month. While this may not alarm you, think about your employees’ salaries. While the vast majority of them will earn less than $5,000 a month, those who earn more will max out the plan. As wages increase, these employees witness earnings erosion under the cap. An employee who earns $120,000 gets just 50 percent of their monthly earnings under Plan A’s cap.
Reverse Discrimination
Plan A’s terms create a situation known as reverse discrimination in disability insurance. Most employers look out for disability insurance policies that discriminate against employees at the lower end of the payscale. They often don’t consider employees at the other end of the wage spectrum.
Plan B doesn’t have a cap, so no matter where your employees land, they will earn 65 percent of their monthly wages. The employee earning $30,000 gets 65 percent of their wages, the same as the employee earning $120,000.
This is a more equal policy. There’s an even better way to do
Plan A’s premium is $61.62 per month and Plan B’s premium is $82.30 per month. A premium is the amount of money paid monthly for an insurance policy.
C. Jose – Based on the number of employees what is the best plan? And will the company add to the plan?
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