New Campaign Launches in Response to Growing Crisis of Working Americans Without Disability Coverage
Recent data by the
Yet more than one in four of today's 20-year-olds can expect to be out of work for at least a year because of a disabling condition before they reach age 67 (the normal retirement age), and nearly six percent of working Americans will experience a short-term disability (six months or less) due to illness, injury, or pregnancy on average every year.
Without income protection in place, many Americans are experiencing severe financial difficulty when they need to miss work due to illness, injury, or pregnancy.
RealityCheckup is a new campaign spearheaded by
The campaign website, RealityCheckup.org, was launched on
"The goal of this campaign is to help people understand that most of us will miss work at some point during our careers due to things like having a baby, hurting our backs, or becoming depressed. It's critically important to know how we'll continue to receive some form of a paycheck when this happens," says
"Each person's approach to saving for these times out of work will different, but we want everyone to understand that some form of insurance coverage such as disability insurance is a critical part of a responsible financial plan."
The campaign media kit, which includes an up-to-date fact sheet of key stats about the state of disability insurance coverage in the
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