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Who Needs Disability Insurance?

Fringe Benefit Analysts

Think about it: without your paycheck, how long would you be able to make your mortgage or rent payment, buy groceries or pay your utilities, car payments and credit card bills without feeling the pinch? That’s where disability insurance comes in. What is Disability Insurance? Who needs disability insurance?

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What is ancillary health insurance?

Higginbotham

Ancillary benefits can also include benefits outside your medical insurance, such as dental, vision, life and disability insurance. There are two main types of ancillary health insurance: voluntary benefits and employer contributory benefits. Examples of Ancillary Health Insurance. Group Life Insurance.

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Other real expenses that are excluded from the “basket of goods” [in Canada, at last] are real estate and life insurance. Think about communications, for example; with internet services and mobile data becoming essential utilities, it makes sense that they be included and their weight increased.