Good work. So...I think I’d want to consider getting my own employment/disability attorney because then MY needs...and not those of my STB former employer...would be most important. But I’m a skeptic raised by too many cops, attorneys and judges. See if you can find any online support groups of people who have been through that process....and your cousin’s thing...and read and read.
And, Mr Sue’s retirement, from a govt agency, is fully taxable. But he had disability payments...into the six figure category...that were NOT taxable.
Also, if you stay on as the employer’s disability problem, is your rate of disability pay frozen or subject to COLA increases or raises that are in your contract’s MOU? Asking because SS increases are teeny, tiny. And, if you stay on your employer’s books, will you be covered under THAT group insurance?
I don’t need the answers, but maybe you do.
