Line Construction Benefit Fund
LINECo

Disability

ANSWER: Weekly Income benefits are available for eligible employees only. The benefits are not provided for dependents, utility employees, retirees, or persons making COBRA self-payments. For more information see the Weekly Income Benefit Tab or the SPD.

ANSWER: You must meet the following requirements:

1. You must be totally disabled as a result of a non-occupational accidental bodily injury or sickness and be completely unable to perform each and every duty of your occupational employment; and
2. You must be covered under the Plan on the date your disability begins; and
3. Your disability must begin, and you must see a doctor about the disability, within 15 days after the last day you worked for a contributing employer.

ANSWER: Weekly Income benefits will begin on the first day of a disability due to an accidental injury. For disabilities due to sickness, benefits will begin on the eighth day of disability if not hospitalized as an inpatient, or on the first day of an inpatient hospital stay if the admission was before the eighth day of sickness. A disability will not be considered to have started until the first day that you are actually examined or treated by a doctor.

ANSWER: If you are injured while working, you will need to file a claim with your Employer's worker's compensation carrier, but you also need to notify Lineco of your disability so that Lineco can determine if you qualify for the Plan's Eligibility Due to Disability provision.