A dollar puzzle with SARS-CoV-2 virions Overall, the COVID-19 crisis appears to have sucked much of the energy out of disability awareness month promotional efforts. (Credit: Thinkstock; NIH)

It's May, and that means Disability Insurance Awareness Month 2020 has started.

The month has arrived as the possible COVID-19 effects on life insurance and health insurance claims are dominating the insurance news, and as efforts to use low interest rates to keep the economy afloat are depressing the bond earnings that life insurers need to write profitable long-term disability insurance business.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.