Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Look for leave cheaters on Facebook

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Over the weekend, I read a funny news item about a woman from Canada, who was on medical leave from her job at IBM. She’d been away from work for about a year and receiving monthly sick-leave payments to get help with major depression.

The funny part is that it seems part of her “therapy” was living it up at a Chippendales show while on vacation. As many of us do, she posted her vacation pics on her Facebook page, where an eagle-eyed rep from Manulife, her insurance carrier, saw them. And quicker than you can say “socialized medicine,” her benefits were cut off.


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