{"id":250,"date":"2014-10-06T13:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:43:32","slug":"events-that-affect-participation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/disability\/long-term-disability\/events-that-affect-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Events that Affect Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is important that you understand how your long-term disability benefits are affected when you take a leave of absence or you no longer work a full-time schedule.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, if you participate in the <a title=\"Retirement Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/finances\/retirement-plan\/\">Boston University Retirement Plan<\/a>, you may be eligible for the Monthly Retirement Plan Waiver Benefit.<\/p>\n<p>If you are receiving disability payments and die, your unmarried dependent children may be eligible to participate (or continue their participation) in the <a title=\"Tuition Remission\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/learningbu\/tuition-remission\/\">Tuition Remission Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Taking a Leave of Absence<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you leave work for any reason for a prolonged period, you should contact <a href=\"mailto:HR@bu.edu\">Human Resources<\/a><b> <\/b>to ask how your absence may affect your participation in the LTD Plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If You Work Less Than 100% of a Full-Time Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You must work 100% of a full-time schedule to retain the long-term disability insurance. If you no longer work full-time, your\u00a0long-term disability insurance coverage will end on the date you change to less than full-time status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important that you understand how your long-term disability benefits are affected when you take a leave of absence or you no longer work a full-time schedule. In addition, if you participate in the Boston University Retirement Plan, you may be eligible for the Monthly Retirement Plan Waiver Benefit. If you are receiving disability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8774,"featured_media":0,"parent":234,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250"}],"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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions\/11365"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}