By its nature, gig work isn’t full time. That makes getting insurance more difficult, and certainly more expensive.
According to Statista, just 4% of millennial gig workers had access to employer-based short-term or long-term disability plans. The numbers for boomer gig workers weren’t much better, coming in at 3% for short-term disability and 5% for long-term disability. Generation X gig workers fared a bit better, but not by much, with 8% having access to short-term and 9% having access to...
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