Disability insurance premiums—the monthly or yearly fees for your insurance policy—are intended to be affordable. After all, you buy it to protect your income in case an accident or sickness renders you unable to work.

But what if you can take that security further by finding more ways to save, like deducting those premiums from your income taxes? Wouldn’t that make disability insurance that much more attractive?

But not all premiums are deductible. In this post, we explore situations where you can get a tax deduction for the cost of disability insurance.

Whether you have disability insurance coverage through your employer or your own policy, you’ll want to know if the benefits are taxable.

That’s because the last thing you want to do is worry about taxes while you’re on a long-term disability claim.

In this post, we explore the different types of disability insurance plans and the applicable tax situation for each.