XPost from NPR - Denied short term disability from pregnancy, is there anything I can do?

So here is my situation: I am a teacher at a private school and I became pregnant last year. I have arhythmia and it became too hard for me to teach, so I took an early maternity leave. I was about 22 weeks pregnant and I stopped working at the end of January. However, I occassionally do test writing from home for a particular company. It is not a steady job.

Since working from home is much easier on the body than teaching, I continued to do a little bit of test writing. I only earned $500 from January to March doing the test writing and did not continue to do test writing since then.

I filed for short term disability from my school and dated it for March, after I stopped test writing. However, I was denied. They told me that since my school was not my last employer, they do not have to pay me.

Is there any way to fight this? I did very little work for the test writing company. I don't know that I am really even considered an employee for this company.

TIA

Re: XPost from NPR - Denied short term disability from pregnancy, is there anything I can do?

If you were freelancing for the test prep company then you were self-employed and the school was your last employer. However, i think your mistake was filing for the disability in March, after you had left the school for a few months. Is there any way you can change the start date to when you left the school?

Re: XPost from NPR - Denied short term disability from pregnancy, is there anything I can do?