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Is anyone else with cancer getting disability?
Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Dec 19, 2023 | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
When I first found out, I had cancer, my company had me on short term, then long-term insurance. When I was on long-term the insurance company, I had hired someone to get me on Social Security. It took a while, but was retroactive and I got a lump sum from Social Security disability. I had to pay back the insurance company for the months that Social Security covered. Pancreatic cancer is an automatic Social Security disability approval. My insurance company was New York life.
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thawk,
Thank you for your reply. I assume SSDI figured the back pay from diagnosis date? Did they (long term insurance company) take from you the whole lump sum you received from SSDI backpay? (from diagnosis date?)
If SSDI paid a lump sum from the diagnosis date, then were you able to keep the amount that SSDI paid out for the first 6 months of your cancer? (in which you received short term disability?). I guess the real questions are, did you have to pay back the full backpay amount, or just the amount from when long term started paying?