LTD Recipient Files Appeal Over Ruling Concerning Disabled Widow’s Benefit

( April 27, 2026, 7:14 AM EDT) -- JASPER, Ala. — A long-term disability (LTD) recipient is headed to the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to challenge an Alabama federal court ruling that lets stand the plan administrator’s decision to withhold her monthly benefit until it has recovered more than $16,000 that it said she was overpaid due to “a Social Security benefit for disabled widows” that the administrator determined should be offset....