The type of insurance you want is “private long-term disability insurance.” You can speak to an insurance agent about it. (If you have a complicated international life like me, take a look Petersen International Underwriters, which is available through Insubuy.)
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You may receive this as a benefit through work. It’s relatively standard in tech. I’d suggest you have a policy in your own name as well; a lot of the things that can result in you not being able to work can result in you losing your job prior to qualifying for benefits.
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The general thing you’re looking to buy is “Pays 60% of your current salary through age of retirement given inability to work longer than X” where you want to set X to their max value (120 days in my case). You want “own occupation”, which pays if you can’t do your actual job.
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There is a cheaper version (“any occupation”) which pays only if you’re unable to do *any* job, but there are ways to be functionally disabled from e.g. programming w/o being unable to work a cash register, in which case no benefits.
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“How much?” Depends on who you go through, your present health, your occupation (if you follow me yours will be cheap), and length of time you have it in force for, but rough order of magnitude is 1.5%~2% of your gross salary for benefits of 60% of it.
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Also: term life insurance, which is really, really cheap (given youth and healthy), is something you should consider mandatory if anyone depends on your income. Add a new policy (or replace) if you have a child / etc. This is also offered through work but same logic applies.
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Throwing this out there again because I don't think I've heard any solutions: what if it was "too late" before you were possibly able to insure for the future? Is there any hope for those people?
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Aside from charity or government-provided benefits, the option which might be useful for people in our industry is "you can run a SaaS or infoproducts business with health which is insufficient for someone else's SaaS business to tolerate from a professional employee."
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How young is "young", out of curiosity? I've put off looking into this because I'm in my 30s (and therefore don't have that much time left in startup tech land (maybe))

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I am also 36 and do not feel like I am likely to stop working in less than 20 years. YMMV.
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