Life Insurance

Long term disability insurance ny ******* New York Short-Term Disability Benefits (DBL) New York employees can receive up to 26 weeks of paid short-term disability benefits per year. By Lorraine Netter , Contributing Author If you are injured or you become ill while not on the job, you may be eligible for New York State short-term disability benefits under its Disability Benefits Law (DBL). While these benefits are limited both in amount and number of payments, they can be very helpful in providing cash to those who are temporarily unable to work. Who Is Eligible for New York Short-Term Disability Benefits? In order to be eligible for short-term disability benefits, you must have become injured or ill while not at work but must be employed, or recently employed, at the time of illness or injury. (Those who are injured on the job are covered under a different set of rules.) Additionally, pregnancy is covered under short-term disability. The employees who are covered by disab...