{"id":242,"date":"2014-10-06T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2014-11-07T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:08:17","slug":"ltd-benefit-duration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/disability\/long-term-disability\/how-the-plan-works\/ltd-benefit-duration\/","title":{"rendered":"LTD Benefit Duration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The duration of your LTD benefits depends on your age when benefits commence.<\/p>\n<p>Once LTD benefits cease, you may be eligible for benefits from your participation in a <a title=\"Retirement Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/finances\/retirement-plan\/\">Retirement Plan<\/a> or for Social Security retirement benefits. You may log on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/\">www.ssa.gov<\/a><b> <\/b>to find information about your Social Security retirement benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The following table shows the maximum period that the plan will pay you benefits as long as you remain disabled.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"293\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Age When Benefits Commence<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"293\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Duration of Benefits<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"293\"><b>60 or younger<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"293\">to age 65 but not less than 5 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"293\"><b>61 to 64<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"293\">5 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"293\"><b>65 to 69<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"293\">to age 70 but not less than 1 year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"293\"><b>70 and older<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"293\">1 year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duration of your LTD benefits depends on your age when benefits commence. Once LTD benefits cease, you may be eligible for benefits from your participation in a Retirement Plan or for Social Security retirement benefits. You may log on to www.ssa.gov to find information about your Social Security retirement benefits. The following table shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8774,"featured_media":0,"parent":238,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242"}],"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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/1326"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}