You have to LOVE it. - Associate Disability Benefits Specialist Unum Employee Review

3.0
Sep 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-Great benefits. -Intensive training and support systems set up. -Hybrid function. - Provided equipment.

Cons

- STD teams are normally overloaded an understaffed. - Depending of the team and region you have you could have different contracts for every claimant to study. -Upper management setting unrealistic expectations for turn around and changing them AGAIN as soon as they are hit. -Though training is intensive, it can be hit or miss and you will likely have tk relearn something because EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING Besides the concrete rules are situational. -You can get very difficult cases and are expected to not let it get to you emotionally. Which can be difficult when you have a terminal claimant and cant approve them.

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Cons

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