Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 51.1 > Chapter 11 > Article 3 - Nonwork Related Disability Benefits.

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Disability: means a partial disability or total disability. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Disability benefit: means income replacement payments payable to a participating employee under a short-term or long-term disability benefit program pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Eligible employee: means (i) a state employee as defined in § Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
• Participating employee: means any eligible employee required or electing to participate in the program. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• Program: means the program providing sick leave, family and personal leave, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits for participating employees established pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
• State service: means the employee's total period of state service as an eligible employee, including all periods of classified full-time and classified part-time service and periods of leave without pay, but not including periods during which the employee did not meet the definition of an eligible employee. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100