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Disability and Travel Assistance

Short Term Disability | Cigna Travel Assistance Program | Cigna
For employees who reside outside of California, Hitachi offers Cigna Secure Travel® is a service arranged by Cigna to provide
you Short Term Disability (STD) to provide income a resource for all of your traveling needs. It provides a
replacement if you become disabled due to accident, sickness comprehensive range of information, referral, coordination,
or pregnancy, through Cigna. If you experience a temporary and arrangement services designed to respond to most
disability, benefits begin 7 days after the start of your medical care situations and many other emergencies you may
accident, sickness or pregnancy. Short Term Disability works have when you travel over 100 miles from home. It also offers
with state disability programs, Social Security, and any other pre-trip assistance and information from passport/visa
group disability coverage, to provide you with a combined requirements, foreign currency, and weather.
weekly benefit equal to 55% of your pre-disability earnings up
to a maximum benefit of $1,011 per week. Secure Travel is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Available services include destination information, emergency
In California, employees have disability benefits (CASDI) travel arrangements, lost/stolen travel documents assistance,
through the State and share in the cost via payroll deduction. legal referrals, emergency messages, emergency pet services,
In HI, NJ and NY, the state requires the company to have a medical evacuation, family member transportation, child
statutory disability policy and you and the Company share in transportation, transportation after stabilization, repatriation,
the cost as permitted by law. medical/dental referrals, treatment monitoring, hospital
payment coordination, insurance information transfer,
Long Term Disability | Cigna medication, vaccine or blood delivery, recovery arrangements,
Long Term Disability (LTD) is an extremely important benefit and missing baggage assistance.
that helps protect your income should you become disabled.
Hitachi Solutions offers you the opportunity to purchase Long Accessing the Travel Assistance Program
Term Disability protection at discounted group rates. If you To access Cigna Secure Travel benefits, contact
become disabled, benefits begin 180 days after the start of (888) 226-4567 from the United Stated or Canada
your illness or injury. Long Term Disability works with state (202) 331-7635 from all other locations
disability programs, Social Security, and any other group (202) 331-1528 fax
disability coverage, to provide you with a combined monthly cigna@gga-usa.com via email
benefit equal to:

Option 1: 60% of your pre‐disability earnings to a maximum *Please refer to Hitachi Solutions employee handbook for
benefit of $5,000 per month process on applying for Short Term Disability.

Option 2: 66 2/3% of your pre‐disability earnings to a
maximum benefit of $12,500 per month

Benefits paid are not taxable.

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