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Sweet relief!

I just found out I'm covered 60% of my salary for 6 weeks with short-term disability. Thank God! I've been saving every penny, and will still do that, but was afraid I'd only be able to afford 8 weeks leave if it was totally unpaid. Now I can do 10-12 for sure.... Yesssssss!  
Love 9.3.03 Marriage 12.1.07 Baby Carriage 8.3.11

Re: Sweet relief!

  • That's awesome. I'm sure that's a big relief.
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  • Awesome!  Short term disability is awesome.  I did not sign up for it in time unfortunately!
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  • Great news! I couldn't imagine not being able to take 12 weeks off once the baby is born. 
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  • Yay for STD!!  My work covers 66 & 2/3% of my salary for 6 weeks (for a vag birth) or 8 weeks (for c-section).  I am not covered by FLMA so I will most likely be taking only the 6 weeks off since I don't know if we will be able to afford me taking more time off unpaid since DH is unemployed.
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  • imageKristin&Kelly09:
    Yay for STD!!  My work covers 66 & 2/3% of my salary for 6 weeks (for a vag birth) or 8 weeks (for c-section).  I am not covered by FLMA so I will most likely be taking only the 6 weeks off since I don't know if we will be able to afford me taking more time off unpaid since DH is unemployed.

    Is the company not big enough for FMLA?

  • I don't qualify for FMLA either.... but there's never been a pregnant woman here in the 20 years my boss has owned the company, so I don't think he really knows what the law is. I'm just acting like it is covered by FMLA, and he doesn't really seem to care. He just wants me to come back, so I think he's willing to let me take what I need. 12 weeks is the most I could afford, and really, what I think I'll need. 
    Love 9.3.03 Marriage 12.1.07 Baby Carriage 8.3.11
  • That's excellent news! My job doesn't offer any maternity benefits - basically you use up all your leave and then go on leave without pay. We don't have any disability policies available either.
  • imagemon.petit.chou:
    That's excellent news! My job doesn't offer any maternity benefits - basically you use up all your leave and then go on leave without pay. We don't have any disability policies available either.

    You can take out a personal STD/LTD policy. I know they offer them through Colonial Life... which is what I had planned to do around now, thinking we'd get pregnant this summer. You have to be on coverage for a year before they will pay out, so I was planning on taking it March 1 then getting pregnant this summer and delivering sometime after March 1 of next year. Didn't quite work out that way... but I'd for sure look into a STD policy!  

    Love 9.3.03 Marriage 12.1.07 Baby Carriage 8.3.11
  • imagenavybaby1113:

    imageKristin&Kelly09:
    Yay for STD!!  My work covers 66 & 2/3% of my salary for 6 weeks (for a vag birth) or 8 weeks (for c-section).  I am not covered by FLMA so I will most likely be taking only the 6 weeks off since I don't know if we will be able to afford me taking more time off unpaid since DH is unemployed.

    Is the company not big enough for FMLA?

    It is a large company overall but due to this nice sentence in the FMLA provisions, I get excluded since our office on has only 25 employees so I get screwed.  (To qualify for the FMLA mandate, a worker must be employed by a business with 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius of his or her worksite, or a public agency, including schools and state, local, and federal employers (the 50-employee threshold does not apply to public agency employees and local educational agencies). 

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  • That is incredible news, yay!!
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