{"id":234,"date":"2014-10-06T13:53:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:01:00","slug":"long-term-disability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/disability\/long-term-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Long-Term Disability Plan is designed to provide a continuing income to you and your family if you are unable to work for longer than six months because of a total disability or if you are disabled and are suffering a 20% or greater earnings loss.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Basic Group Life Insurance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/finances\/survivor-insurance\/basic-group-life-insurance\/\">Basic Life Insurance<\/a> and <a title=\"Group Supplemental Life Insurance Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/finances\/survivor-insurance\/group-supplemental-life-insurance-plan\/\">Group Supplemental Life Insurance<\/a> will continue at no cost to you while you are receiving Long-Term Disability benefits.<\/p>\n<p>You may also be eligible for coverage under disability plans not described here. These may include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/lifebu\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/\">Paid Family and Medical Leave Policy, the Personal Medical Leave Policy<\/a>, or<b> <\/b>government-sponsored plans such as <a title=\"Social Security\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/forms-documents\/benefits-administrative-information\/statutory-benefits\/social-security\/\">Social Security<\/a> or <a title=\"Workers\u2019 Compensation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/disability\/workers-compensation\/\">Workers\u2019 Compensation<\/a>.<b> <\/b>\u00a0For additional information, see your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/policies\/employee-handbook-human-resources-policies-manual\/\">Employee Handbook<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/handbook\/\">Faculty Handbook<\/a>, and your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/labor-relations\/\">collective bargaining agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To view and print a copy of the entire LTD Plan description; visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/forms-documents\/\">Forms &amp; Documents<\/a> Library.<\/p>\n<p>To see how certain life events may affect your LTD benefits, visit <a title=\"Life@BU\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/life-career-events\/\">Life &amp; Career Events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long-Term Disability Plan is designed to provide a continuing income to you and your family if you are unable to work for longer than six months because of a total disability or if you are disabled and are suffering a 20% or greater earnings loss. Basic Life Insurance and Group Supplemental Life Insurance will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8774,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15411,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/15411"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}