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, there’s also a 12-month waiting period from your date of hire, and your coverage is effective on that date. Full-time hourly vision center manager coverage is effective on date of hire.
- 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 Hawaii, New Jersey, and New York must be submitted to Sedgwick within 30 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.
- 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. 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 by calling 800-421-1362.
See the 2024 Associate Benefits Book for more information about your benefits and eligibility. It will control over any conflicting information on this page.
