What is Silver Shield?
Silver Shield Details
The CCPOA Silver Shield Disability Benefit Plan is designed to help you with basic living expenses while you are unable to work due to a disability. Silver Shield covers short-term illnesses and injuries caused while on-or-off the job.
The plan covers disabilities from a wide range of illness, injury and disease, but there are some exclusions and conditions. For example: a disability that results from driving under the influence, or a mental condition would not be covered.
Who Can Apply?
Rank and File; Supervisor
What Does Silver Shield Cost?
Active: $45 monthly
Why Choose Silver Shield?
- Officers with large amounts of sick time saved up may benefit from Silver Shield.
- People who carry large amounts of additional disability coverage may also benefit.
Silver Shield covers you On-the-Job and Off-the-Job
- Off -the-Job: Up to 100% of base pay or $3,000 per month (whichever is lower)*
- On-the-Job: A minimum benefit of $400 per month in addition to your IDL or EIDL payments from the State.
How Does It Coordinate? Coordinates with income you are eligible to receive under NDI3, CTB4, ENDI5, TD6, PD7, Sick leave, and any other individual or group disability benefits (for example: disability insurance by Standard or AFLAC) to provide a combined total monthly benefit of up to 100% of your base pay, except that the combined Trust benefits will in no event exceed $3,000 per month or be less than $400 per month.
What’s The Elimination Period? After being certified disabled, there is a 180 day “elimination period” for all Silver Shield claims. Payouts from Silver Shield kick- in after the 180 days have elapsed.
Premium Waiver Benefit: After the elimination period has passed, you pay no premium for the duration of your disability under Silver Shield once you have been disabled for 60 days.
How quickly can I start using the Plan after I complete enrollment? You are enrolled in the program immediately after you successfully complete the enrollment process. However, each level of coverage has a different elimination period before benefits begin.
Silver Shield benefits begin after 180 consecutive calendar days from the date you are certified as disabled. (Pre-existing condition limitations apply).
Maximum Benefit Period
- Off-the-Job: Up to 24 months for non-occupational injury or illness.
- On-the-Job: Up to 24 months for occupational injury or illness.
Surviving Dependent Benefit: Three months of continued monthly benefits.
Silver Shield is made to supplement your other existing
coverages.
This means that Worker’s Comp or IDL will not be your only source of
income.
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*These benefits are offset under the Plan by certain other income benefits. 1Industrial Disability Leave 2Enhanced Industrial Disability Leave 3Non-Industrial Disability Insurance 4Catastrophic Time Bank 5Enhanced Non-Industrial Disability Insurance 6Temporary Disability 7Permanent Disability