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Employees know very little about disability coverage. But when they learn about it, they often want the coverage and are willing to pay for it, recent surveys find. The Consumer Federation of America and Unum national survey of 1,200 employees finds that only 13% know “a lot” about disability insurance, and less than half (47%) know what its benefits are.
Kalish is a fomer managing editor of SourceMedia’s Employee Benefits Group.
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