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.
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.
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.
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 Enrollment 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.
More resources
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.
