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Aflac agent urges Woods County to restore supplemental benefits, highlights new rehab, app and higher critical-care payouts
Summary
At the Woods County Board of Commissioners meeting Aug. 25, insurance agent Brenda Machin asked commissioners to allow Aflac to resume offering supplemental benefits to county employees, citing new mobile-claims capability, expanded short-term disability for rehab and increases to first-occurrence critical-care payments.
Brenda Machin, an insurance agent from Clinton representing Aflac, urged the Woods County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 25 to allow Aflac to resume offering supplemental employee benefits to county staff and others in the county.
Machin told commissioners Aflac has added a mobile claims app that lets policyholders file claims and receive direct deposit, and said the company has broadened short-term disability and hospital benefits to support employees who seek treatment for substance-use or alcohol problems. "Our short term disability now is gonna come in, and if somebody checks themselves into a rehab and stays, we pay them after the 7 day waiting period," Machin said. She also said Aflac's…
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