then it would only be through the award of back pay that Dr. Tse could be fully cohipensated for NYU’s discrimination. Assuming Plaintiff would be entitled to damages for lost wages, the next question is whether the collateral source rule applies to her receipt of SSDI and LTD benefits — that is, whether and if so, how much, the Court can or must offset awards of back pay when the Plaintiff has also received disability benefits from outside sources. The Court is unaware of any Second Circuit precedent precisely on point, and the Parties have raised none. However, the Second Circuit has clear that the decision to offset a lost wages award in an employment discrimination case “rests .in the sound discretion of district court.,” Dailey v. Societe Generate, 108 F,3d 451, 460 (2d Cir.1997) (<HOLDING>); Ramey v. Dist. 141, Int’l Ass’n of Machinists
holding that district court had discretion to decline to deduct unemployment insurance benefits from damages award holding that unemployment compensation benefits received by plaintiff are collateral source and that defendant could not reduce personal injury damages because of such benefits holding that unemployment compensation should not be deducted from a back pay award under the national labor relations act because failing to deduct unemployment payments does not make the employee more than whole holding that district court had discretion to decline to offset severance and unemployment payments from damages award holding  1001 prosecution for false statements in unemployment benefits not precluded by unemployment benefits statute specifically addressing topic