Guardian Disability Income Select
Quality voluntary Short Term Disability coverage with flexible options
Guardian Disability Income Select™, Guardian’s voluntary short term disability (STD) insurance, offers a variety of plan choices to help your clients meet the needs of each employee.
Guardian Disability Income Select is flexible. Employers can customize benefit amount, benefit duration, elimination period, and more. Employees select the right level of income replacement protection for their needs. Plus, if employees ever change jobs, they can take their STD coverage with them.1
Guardian® is #1 in total in force disability cases2
Over 65 years of experience in group disability insurance
STD claims processed within 8 days or less — 98% accuracy
Dedicated claims case manager
Knowledgeable resources to help employees return to work
Fully integrated absence management solution
Easy quoting. No census data is required to quote the program.
Helps fill coverage gaps. Plans can be used to help fill coverage gaps since they are non-integrating and won’t offset with other sources of income such as Social Security Disability, statutory plans, or other group disability plans.
Benefits for partially-disabled employees. Employees can qualify for benefits and receive benefit payments if partially disabled (working while disabled but earning less than 80% of pre-disability earnings).
Specified Injury Benefit helps injured employees. Our Specified Injury Benefit1 pays a guaranteed minimum number of weekly payments (or lump sum) for specific losses due to accidental injury.
Enrollment and administration is easy
Guardian enrollment support does the work for your clients to help employees easily purchase valuable coverage. Plus, our annual re-enrollment option lets employees purchase the next higher benefit amount without Evidence of Insurability. It’s easy to administer because we will customize premium collection to the employer’s payroll deduction method (payroll deductions will not increase with salary raises since they are based on flat amounts). |
Disability Income Select benefit details by employer size
Employers with 10+ employees |
Employers can make available up to 3 plan options for elimination period & benefit duration and up to 20 choices for flat benefit amounts. 4 |
Elimination periods from 1/8 up to 180/180 days (day benefits begin for accident/sickness) |
Benefit duration between 4 weeks to 2 years |
Benefit amounts range from $50 - $2,500 per week and cannot exceed 60% of employee’s gross salary. (Choices for flat amounts are the same for each elimination period and benefit duration combination offered) and may require underwriting approval. |
If you are a broker and want to learn more about disability insurance for your clients, contact your Guardian Group Sales Representative.