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Keep an Eye on Your Walitt: NIH Study Poses Dramatic Risk to Long-Term Disability Benefits
Many ME/CFS* sufferers are covered by employer-sponsored long-term disability (“LTD”) policies. These policies almost universally limit LTD benefits to 24 months for disability caused—or even just contributed to—by a mental/nervous disorder. The following language is taken from a current policy … Continue reading
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Tagged CFS, Chemobrain, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Disability insurance, Dr. Brian Walitt, If chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis is all in your head it’s only because your head is part of your body., Long-Term Disability, ME, ME/CFS, Mental/nervous disorder, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, NIH, NIH intramural study of post-infectious ME/CFS, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Somatoform Disorder
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