Staff Handbook
If You Become Disabled
Social Security Disability Insurance
If you are totally and permanently disabled for more than six consecutive months,
you may also be eligible for Social Security Disability benefits. Contact your
local Social Security Office as soon as you learn you may be totally disabled
for more than six months.
Health and Life Insurance Coverage
If you have completed 15 or more years of continuous, full-time NYU employment
and are receiving Long Term Disability benefits through Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, you are eligible to continue your NYU group health and life insurance coverage.
To do so, enroll in an NYU retiree group health care plan and elect to continue
health and life insurance as a retiree of the University.
If you have completed less than 15 years of service, you can continue your
current membership in a health care plan (through COBRA—the Consolidated Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act) for up to 18 months after leaving NYU. You must pay
102% of the total group rate premium. The Benefits Office will send you a letter
explaining the application procedures.
You may convert your group life insurance policy to an individual policy, which
will differ from the group plan in coverage and charges. Conversion information
will be mailed to you automatically. No evidence of insurability will be required
if you enroll within 30 days of receiving this information.
Tuition Remission
Whether or not your tuition remission benefit continues depends on the length
of your continuous, full-time NYU employment before you became disabled.
- Less than five years—your individual entitlement ceases at the end of the
semester in which you are enrolled at the time of disability. Your spouse
or registered domestic partner and children may complete the degree
program in which they were enrolled at the time of disability.
- Five or more years—your individual entitlement is the same as before disability.
Children under college-age at the time of disability will be eligible for
four years of tuition remission toward completion of a bachelor’s degree when
they reach college-age. Your spouse or registered domestic partner
and children may complete the degree program in which they were enrolled at
the time of disability.
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