CNBC November 30, 2022
Key Points
– Long Covid can be a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but getting approved for disability insurance is challenging.
– To qualify, “a person must have a medical condition or combination of conditions that prevents the individual from working and is expected to last at least one year or result in death,” according to the Social Security Administration.
Michael Bryand, 35, first got Covid in September 2020. “I never really got better,” he said in a sit-down interview with CNBC.
“I had symptoms that stayed with me and that are still with me.”
Bryand, who was working at Wells Fargo in San Antonio at the time, went on short-term disability and then long-term disability but was...