Trial rehabilitation during the long-term disability period is defined as returning to work in any capacity with any employer participating in TSERS if your salary earned is equal to or greater than the salary on which your long-term benefit is based. During periods of trial rehabilitation, your long-term disability benefits will be suspended. 

If you are unable to continue with re-employment because of the same disability or a new disabling condition, your long-term disability benefit may be restored without a waiting period or new short-term disability period if:

• Your return to service was not longer than 36 continuous months, and
   
• the Retirement Systems’ Medical Board certifies that you are disabled according to the laws that were in effect at the time of your original approval for long-term disability.

If your trial rehabilitation period exceeds 36 continuous months, and you are unable to continue with reemployment because of the same disability or a new disabling condition, you will be required to re-apply for short-term disability and a new 60-day waiting period will be imposed. Any later disability will be treated as a new condition requiring a new waiting period and a new short-term disability period.