Eligibility for Employee Recipients. 1. The employee recipient must have experienced a catastrophic illness or injury with special, extenuating circumstances that results in not being eligible for or exhausting all other benefits.
Eligibility for Employee Recipients. The employee recipient must have experienced a catastrophic illness or injury with special, extenuating circumstances that results in not being eligible for or exhausting all other benefits. A catastrophic illness or injury will be defined as follows: "A severe, medically certified illness or injury necessitating the staff member's absence from work for an extended period of time. These events are one's own terminal, life threatening, or other grave illness/injury." The employee recipient will become ineligible for this program once any other source of income (e.g., workers' compensation, Social Security insurance or long term disability insurance) becomes available. The employee recipient is required to report ineligibility and may be required to repay overpayments. The employee recipient may access as many days as are donated in their name as (xxx as medical certification supports their eligibility. Unused Donations: Any unused donated days will be placed in a sick leave pool bank. The bank of sick leave donations will be used for the purpose of completing the needed time for the recipient after the recipient's accumulated sick leave days or units and days or units from the sick leave donations do not cover up to 60 days out. A recipient can only receive the remaining unpaid days needed to reach the total of days stated on the medical paperwork or a maximum of 60 days.
