Short-term disability
Protection from the unexpected.
The short-term disability plan can provide protection for your recovery and your income. Full-time hourly, salaried, and truck driver associates are automatically enrolled in this no-cost coverage. If you’re not able to work due to illness, injury, surgery, or pregnancy, you can receive a portion of your pay for up to 25 weeks. Eligibility conditions and state variations apply.

Get paid while you recover.

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Full-time hourly associates


At no cost to you, receive up to 50%

of your average weekly wage for up to 25 weeks while

you recover. Or get 60% with the enhanced plan.

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Salaried associates  


At no cost to you, receive up to 100%

of your pay for up to the first six weeks,

then 75% for up to 19 more weeks.

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Truck drivers
 

At no cost to you, receive up to 75%

of your average day’s pay

for up to 25 weeks.

Full-time hourly associates

  • You’re enrolled automatically in short-term disability ​basic​ coverage, which becomes effective on the 12-month anniversary of your date of hire. If you’re a full-time hourly vision center manager, your coverage is effective on your date of hire.
  • ​​​If you enroll in the short-term disability enhanced plan​ when you’re first eligible​, there’s also a 12-month waiting period from your date of hire, and your coverage is effective on that date. ​If you enroll later, coverage is effective 12 months after either the date you enroll during Annual Enrol​​l​​ment​​ or the date of an election change event that allows you to enroll.
  • If you’re a full-time hourly vision center manager and enroll in enhanced coverage when you’re first eligible, it’s effective on your date of hire. Otherwise there’s a 12-month waiting period.
  • You can add or drop short-term disability only during Annual Enrollment or if you have an election change event, like a marriage or a birth.
  • ​​Contact Sedgwick as soon as you know you’ll be absent from work due to an illness, injury, surgery, or pregnancy. ​​​
  • To apply for a leave of absence and file a short-term disability claim​,​ go to mySedgwick.com/Walmart or call 800-492-5678.
  • Disability claims must be filed within 90 days in most cases.
  • The basic plan replaces up to 50% of your average weekly wage with no maximum.
  • The enhanced plan replaces up to 60%, also with no maximum (unless you work in New York which has a maximum of $6,000 per week).
  • With either the basic or enhanced plan, short-term disability may pay you for up to 25 weeks after a waiting period of seven calendar days.
  • You’ll find complete details in the Associate Benefits Book.
  • If your disability is due to pregnancy, the plan pays 100% of your average weekly wage for nine weeks after an initial waiting period of seven calendar days.
  • If you experience medical complications and you are eligible for non-maternity disability benefits, the basic plan pays up to 50% of your average weekly wage, and the enhanced plan pays up to 60% of your average weekly wage from week 10 up to 25 weeks.
  • You may also be eligible for additional parental pay. For details, see the parental pay policy.
  • ​​Disability claims filed in ​​​​​​New Jersey​​ and New York must be submitted to Sedgwick within 30 days of the date your disability begins.​​​
  • ​​​Disability claims filed in​​​​ Hawaii must be submitted to Sedgwick within 90 days of the date your disability begins​​.​​​​
  • ​​If you are an hourly full-time associate and work in California, Hawaii, New Jersey, or Rhode Island, you are not eligible for Walmart’s short-term disability coverage because the state in which you work has legally mandated disability plans. You may still be eligible for the maternity benefit under the Walmart short-term disability basic plan.​​​
  • ​​In Hawaii, New York and New Jersey​​,​​ Sedgwick will forward claims to Lincoln, which administers the statutory plans in these states.​
  • ​​If you work in Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington ​​​state​, or Washington, D.C., you are eligible to participate in a Walmart short-term disability plan to supplement your legally mandated benefits, which are administered by Sedgwick. ​You should file a claim with Sedgwick in addition to filing with your state or locality within 30 days of the date your disability begins. ​Contact Sedgwick at mySedgwick.com/Walmart or call 800-492-5678 for more information and help.​​​

You’ll find complete details in the Associate Benefits Book.

Salaried and driver associates

  • Coverage is effective on your date of hire, and there’s no cost to you.
  • Contact Sedgwick as soon as you know you’ll be absent from work due to an illness, injury, surgery, or pregnancy.
  • To apply for a leave of absence and to file a short-term disability claim, go to mySedgwick.com/Walmart or call 800-492-5678.
  • Disability claims must be filed within 90 days.
  • The Salaried short-term disability plan replaces 100% of your base pay for up to six weeks, and 75% for up to 19 more weeks, after a waiting period of seven calendar days.
  • The truck driver short-term disability plan replaces 75% of your average day’s pay for up to 25 weeks after a waiting period of seven calendar days.
  • You’ll find complete details in the Associate Benefits Book.
  • If your disability is due to pregnancy, the plan pays 100% of your base pay for nine weeks after an initial waiting period of seven calendar days.
  • If you experience medical complications during pregnancy or post-partum, you may also qualify for non-maternity disability benefits of 75% of your base pay from week 10 up to 25 weeks.
  • You may also be eligible for additional benefits under the parental pay policy. For more information, see the parental pay policy.
Filing a claim?
Contact Sedgwick, our partner for disability administration, at mySedgwick.com/Walmart or call 800-492-5678.
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Need help?

For claims help, call Sedgwick at 800-492-5678.
Chat with a People Services Representative at One.Walmart.com/BenefitsChat or call 1-800-421-1362.
See the 2025 Associate Benefits Book for more information about your benefits and eligibility. It will control over any conflicting information on this page.
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