Sun Life Group Benefits Insurance Reviews

Okay. Let's get things straight here, I would give a 0/5 for Sun Life in the disability sector. 3/5 to the group benefits. I have been off work due to what I have found out is bad ADHD and a myriad of anxiety disorders that I have been dealing with my whole life, and things have started to go extremely bad aka, almost suicide... I have been doing my due diligence with going to my appointments etc. waiting. Going to more appointments. Until I have finally gotten to see my psychiatrist today. When I first applied and got accepted for my disability claim. It took 3 weeks to get anything done. It took two weeks for my case manager to get a hold of me and confirm. Then after that. It took a week for my claim amount and dates to process. Then somehow a whole week to mail me a check... second time I applied for an extension. It took another 3 weeks to get any money. It is extremely difficult to get a hold of any case manager. As for some reason they aren't actually ever in their office. Why? I do not know. This is a benefits company. You are supposed to be helping people who are disabled or in need of help. These people need quick service. Not a lot of people have a whole months worth of savings to back themselves on to these days. May I mention, we also pay into this. So it is basically our money, to begin with, okay? So I have been diagnosed with bad ADHD and three other anxiety disorders along with a stress disorder. So my fiance and I were not able to pay rent due to 3-week delays, which happened twice now. I have been evaluated and strictly told to take 3 months off work for new medication and a strict plan ordered by the psychiatrist. I have left 4 messages in the last 3 days trying to get a hold of a case manager, to avoid the previous almost month-long delays. It is absolutely ridiculous, unprofessional and stressful. Sun Life financial should be stripped of their licenses and removed from the insurance business. People need money when they are not working. Unbelievably horrible service from this company and I am appalled my company uses them for their insurance and benefits. I could go on all day about the bad experiences I've had with Sun Life. But this will have to do. If someone high up in Sun Life reads this on some off chance. There needs to be some changes

The company I was working for closed the business and all employees made redundant. This was in August 2018. Despite the claim being made in July 2018, the first contact to advise that no payment would be made was the end of February 2019! Denial of claim, then numerous calls and it took three calls to the call centre (offshore of course), and 10 days to get a call to advise no payment. Awful service! I was advised that as of mid-July 2018, due to administrative issues, all claims had been suspended. Why so long and so many calls/faxes/online claims to get the answer? 7 months is astoundingly poor service!

This is by far the worst company I have ever interacted with (in any industry, for anything).

They are currently charging me for vision insurance but do not have me in the system. Because they do not have me in the system, they say they can't be charging me. My paychecks say otherwise.

The customer service is slow, rude, and completely unknowledgeable.

They are inexpensive because in this case, you really do get what you pay for. The hours of time you spend trying to fix their mistakes is worth so much more than the money you "save". If you care about yourself, choose ANY other company.

My company use to use Manulife Financial, then they switched to Sun Life, no doubt to save a buck. Sun Life repeatedly seems to find ways to dissuade me from using my benefits. For example, twice now, they have told me that I needed a doctor's note in order to qualify for coverage of certain health services. Not knowing any better, I paid for a prescription. (not covered) I recently found out that my employer's plan with Sun Life does not require me to get a prescription. Now that I'm trying to get Sun Life to compensate me for the costs that I've incurred due to their misinformation, or should I call it "intentional dissuasion", they give me the run around. It's like they're trying to make it harder for me to use my health benefits. Furthermore, everytime I call them, I'm on hold for at least 15 minutes it seems. I'm not exaggerating. You can't email them without sending a "secure message" through their site. In order to see their reply, you have to log in to the site and view it.

Sun life will do anything they can to not cover you. I have had numerous medications not covered and a root canal that they said I had 80% coverage but by then end of all their tricks ended up being only close to 40% covered. I would not recommend using Sun Life for anything.

I called Sun Life to inquire one simple question about my group coverage. After providing my account number and other details I was put on hold by another customer service person. Was on hold for 45 minutes before they hung up on me. What poor service from such a biggest company. Why are they taking more customers if they can’t provide decent service? Wish my employer move on to some other smaller company.

These folks must be feeling the Pandemic payout crunch. The lead time for claims processing is getting longer and longer and they have resorted to stall and delay tactics to postpone payments of benefits. We will not be renewing with Sun Life for our Group Benefits Plan going forward!

Where to start, we've had so many issues with Sun Life is unreal. Back in December, I needed a stretching device for after my wrist surgery, it is very costly at 1500 a month but with my benefits, it covered up to 5000 for life. We did a pre-estimate and were approved for 3 months. We did the application and got approved there as well. When I got the device, the first month was no problem, they paid in full, but the second month they paid 56, third month, they paid nothing. They made a bunch of excuses, said that they should of paid the first month, it is not covered blah blah, wouldn't even re-read their own estimates and pre-approvals that they sent me! I eventually gave up. Just recently our benefits from 1500 to 1800 lifetime for Ortho so after maxing out 1500 for one child, I tried to process this months braces payment, denied. That claim was ongoing before the raise in amounts so it is not covered. It was covered by another company no questions asked.

AVOID Sun Life