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Good morning! I’m just seeing your show on TV right now. I started receiving AISH benefits in 2018 or 2019. I have fibromyalgia and lower back problems. The fibromyalgia and anxiety and depression is what is making my life very painful. Last November I got married and so AISH cut me off because they say my husband makes too much money. That for me, took away my independence and my security. I still can’t work more than 16 to 20 hours per week. If anything should happen to him where does that leave me? Or if anything should happen to the relationship, where does that leave me.? Why do I have to be lumped in with my husband just to receive a benefit for a disability that I have? I’ve had a hard time excepting my disability, and so at one point I did go back to work in camp up north for about eight months but my body could no longer handle it. Then I spent a couple of months in bed when I wasn’t working 16 hours a week at a taco place. After I got married, I had to move from the city to a small town in Alberta where my husband owned a house at the time. So, I applied for unemployment and had a struggle to get it. Then I did get it and received a few checks, but I was still looking for work as they require. I got a job at Subway, and worked there for three days, but my body couldn’t handle it because of too much twisting and bending in a tiny space. So I quit that one and got a job the following week at a restaurant as a waitress. So unemployment cut me off because they said that I didn’t go get a doctors note to show that that job wasn’t suitable for me. Instead, I just went and got another job so I didn’t follow their policy. So that’s money lost for me that I had worked And put into the benefits. I know I’m so frustrated. I’m almost 56 years old and waitressing is not going to work well for my body long-term. So I am signing up to become an aesthetician, paying for this course myself. So that I can work in a Spa at a slower rate, and hopefully at a job that is more conducive to wellness. Is there anything you can do to either get my unemployment, benefits, reinstated, or, my AISH reinstated? Please let me know. Hope you have a great day. Merry Christmas
I have been on LTD for 5 years. This year they approved my claim until I'm 65. What are my obligations? Do I need to continue the rehab treatments and attemps to take courses etc. to show I'm still trying to return to work? Or can I just focus on treatments that are helping with my issues and focus on trying to live my best life?
I've been off work for a number of months on LTD. I sent a doctor's note for return to work with accommodations with ten days notice that I was ready to return to work with accommodations. All communications were done through the insurance company, and return to work was constantly being deferred and my accommodation requests denied by the employer. I sent a note to HR asking for return to work within seven days a few days ago. They responded with a return to work date on Monday (with still the accommodation requests denied). Am I entitled to back pay to return date set by my doctor? I don't want to stir things up with my employer, but I'm out a lot of money when you subtract the insurance from my earnings. As for the accommodation requests, I feel like I'm being set up for failure.
I have low vision and have had it my whole life. My TL / Manager is asking for me to arrange a callback. I have been on LTD for 3 monthes due to cancer. I suspect they want me to return immediately. This cancer has been diagnosed between stage 3 and 4. I went through chemo up until August. Right now, there is no cancer on the tests. The issue being is that my open surgery touched on 5 different organ areas. I need to still heal on the inside of the surgical area, learning to eat in small amounts frequently during the day, vitamin loss, peripheral neuropathy, vision and hearing impairment, dizziness and brain fog to name a few. I am not ready to go back. I understood that the employer should not be reaching out to employee directly on LTD. Also, I am very sure that the phone conversation will be recorded when I eventually speak to them. I want to be armed with information before the convo.
My employer started to pay me regular pays while I was already receiving group LTD benefits from Manulife. This started 2 months after I was approved for LTD. Manulife has stopped my payments, citing an overpayment. There is no reason for my employer to pay me while I am on LTD. I have now missed 2 LTD payments. I sent an email to my employer stating that I will pay back the money they deposited into my account so I can start receiving my LTD benefits again. Manulife is waiting for the employer to confirm before they will resume my payments. I believe this is a payroll error and the employer is not admitting to the error and instead is claiming that they topped up my LTD to 100 percent using my vacation credits, and that Manulife should have paid them (the employer) instead of me. But that is not the process with LTD. Manulife won’t listen to me and said I have to work this out with my employer. What are my options to get this figured out?
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