My father had the unfortunate circumstance of having a heart attack this past March. Often times there are certain earthly consequences for things we experience during our life. Being a smoker all his life, when he retired this past March from being a meat cutter for a local grocery store, he wasn’t in the best of shape. He was in the Hospital for 7 days, had to have double bypass surgery, and had to seek constant follow up treatments. My mother, who was still working at the time, had disability, but that didn’t pay her anything. She exhausted some of her paid time off, applied for Family Medical Leave Act (which doesnt pay anything) which kept her job, and had to drive my father from and to his appointments. She also stayed with him in the hospital a few nights. Ordinarily this would put most people in a financial bind. Thankfully my father had a critical illness policy, which paid him over $13,000. This helped pay his deductible, out of pocket costs, and medications. My parents also used the money to help pay for my mother’s lost wages from work, pay for gas she put in her car to drive my father back and forth to the hospital, and for some food she may have purchased during her overnights at the hospital. Most people don’t think about things like this happening to them. Thankfully there are benefit solutions to help people financially protect themselves. God Bless.
Benefit Communication Through Employee Education