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[the_rck]

I’m sitting in the office at Cordelia’s school. There’s an informational meeting in 3.5 hours, and this was as late as Scott could drop me off. I have food for Cordelia, but she just texted to tell me she’s getting dinner with a friend. Whatever she gets that way is likely to be better than cold chicken fingers.

I got a letter from the university’s benefits office today that says that they’re transitioning me to ‘retirement status’ now that my LTD has ended. This seems weird to me. They say they’re assigning me a retirement counselor who will see whether or not I can start drawing on my retirement account . I’m pretty sure I can’t without penalties, but I’m now wondering if they’re hoping I’ll accept that money and stop pushing for the LTD. Most of what I want from the LTD is the ongoing insurance and the payments into the retirement fund, so... Even if the money part was the same, I would lose things I want.

It just seems like a verbal trick to call me retired at 52 rather than disabled.

On the plus side, being classified as retired from the university would give me access to UHS again.

Comments

[evalerie]

Hm. That sounds less than ideal, but better than it could have been. It just seems to me that the University could pinch pennies in some other less harmful way than cutting off your disability status.