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Do Large Corporations Practice Age Discrimination With Regard To Retiree Health And Life Insurance Benefits? |
At age 56 I was forced into retirement by diagnosis of cancer. When I reached age 60 the supplemental life insurance premiums I have paid for years increased by 70%. If that's not age discrimination, what is it?
| Answer: You were lucky you even had supplemental life insurance benefits to begin with. Most employers would have bounced you out of their system upon your retirement. You also could have possibly made some more income by buying a disability insurance policy and could have put off being 'forced into retirement' by allowing the disability policy to pay your income until you would have reached a better retirement age. Those policies are even cheaper than supplemental life policies. And, since the risk of becoming disabled is far higher than dying early....they make more sense. |