Cancer Diagnosis May Throw Your Financial World Upside Down

If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, one of your first worries might be where you should get your medical treatment and will you be able to continue working during treatment.

If your breast cancer prevents you from working, you may be entitled to receive long term disability benefits if you’ve purchased a disability plan from a private insurer or have coverage through an employer.

You should talk to your human resources department and determine whether or not you have short term disability and long term disability insurance benefits. Most short term disability policies will cover 13 to 26 weeks of disability.

Let’s face it, the initial weeks of chemotherapy are going to be aggressive and you are going to have difficult working. Hopefully, you’ve purchased short and long term disability benefits that will protect you and your family. Amy Graff recently wrote in the greenbaypressgazzette.com on March 29, 2011 about her diagnosis and the financial difficulties that she and her family have because they let their individual disability policy go.

Our hearts, at the Law Office of Nancy L. Cavey, go out to Ms. Graff and her family. As Ms. Graff said, “I will encourage people to take out long term disability. It’s amazing to meet someone as healthy as me as sitting here on disability right now, wake up call. Every get out there. Go get yourself long term disability insurance to protect your family”.

Nancy Cavey knows first hand what it is like to have a family member diagnosed with cancer and the financial impact cancer can have on any family.

If your breast cancer makes it impossible for you to work and you have been denied your long term disability benefits, attorney Nancy Cavey of Cavey and Barrett can help you cut through the red tape and fight for your benefits no matter where you live in the United States, contact Nancy Cavey of Cavey and Barrett to at 727-894-3188.