Table of Contents

  1. Eligibility
  2. Amount Of Benefits
  3. Benefits Begin
  4. Benefits End
  5. Successive Periods of Eligibility
  6. Taxability of Benefits

Disability

Weekly Income Benefits are designed to help replace lost wages when you are totally disabled and unable to work. This benefit is available to eligible employees only. No utility employees, retirees, dependents, or participants on continuation coverage are eligible.

Your disability must begin within 15 days after the last day you worked for a contributing employer. You must also be covered under the Plan on the date your disability begins.

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  • Amount Of Benefits

    $600 per work week (effective 1/1/2022), pro-ratable for partial weeks, up to a maximum of 26 weeks for any one continuous period of disability. Note that Weekly Income Benefits are payable for non-occupational injuries and sicknesses only.

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  • Benefits Begin

    Benefits begin with the first day of disability resulting from an injury. For disabilities due to sickness, benefits begin on the eighth day of disability if not hospitalized as an inpatient, or on the first day of an inpatient hospital stay. A disability will not be considered to have started until the first day that you are actually examined or treated by a doctor. Note: LINECO Will NOT accept disability certifications from Doctors of Chiropractic (D.C.).

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  • Benefits End

    Benefits end after the maximum period of 26 weeks has been paid or as soon as the participant is no longer disabled.

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  • Successive Periods of Eligibility

    If you have a second period of disability due to the same diagnosis or cause, it will be considered part of the previous period of disability, subject to the same 26-week maximum payment period, unless you return to full-time work and re-establish eligibility due to work hours.

    If you have a second period of disability due to the same diagnosis or cause, it will be considered part of the previous period of disability, subject to the same 26-week maximum payment period, unless you return to full-time work and re-establish eligibility due to work hours.

    If you have more than one period of disability due to the same accident, only the first period of disability will be considered as caused by an accident. All other periods of disability due to that accident will be considered as due to a sickness.

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