Walmart short-term disability: how it works
Short-term disability at Walmart runs through Sedgwick, Walmart's leave administrator. Here is who it is for, how a claim starts, where the pay figures live, and which part of the claim a health care provider completes.
Does Walmart offer short-term disability?
Yes. Walmart's public leave-of-absence overview for hourly associates, read October 2026, says that when you're out because you're sick or injured, "short-term disability benefits may be available to you." The same page says a leave of absence has to be requested, and that it can be paid or unpaid depending on the reason for the leave. Short-term disability is the benefit that can replace part of your income while you are out for your own illness or injury, and the overview names Sedgwick, "our leave administrator," as where a leave is requested.
So two things run at once: the leave itself, and the disability claim attached to it. This page follows the claim. If you have heard "STD" from a coworker or a leave specialist, are out for your own illness or injury, and have no form in hand yet, this is the page for that stage. The Walmart leave guide covers the other leave types, FMLA included, and how they fit together.
Who is eligible for Walmart short-term disability?
Walmart's overview puts it in one sentence: "If you're a full-time associate and have an eligible medical condition requiring that you miss work for an extended period of time, you can submit a short-term disability claim to help replace part of your income." The sentence goes on to describe the length of the benefit. That figure belongs to the plan documents, so this page does not reprint it. Three conditions sit in Walmart's sentence: full-time status, an eligible medical condition, and an extended absence. Whether yours meet them is the leave specialist's call, not this page's.
The overview also says who tells you. "When you apply for leave, your leave specialist will let you know if you're eligible for short-term disability." Eligibility is not something to work out from a forum thread. It comes from the leave specialist on your case, after the leave is requested.
The overview is written for hourly associates. If your position is not an hourly one, the plan documents on one.walmart.com are where the terms live.
How do you apply for short-term disability at Walmart?
Request the leave through Sedgwick, online at mySedgwick or by phone. The overview describes Sedgwick as Walmart's leave administrator, and it says your leave specialist tells you whether you are eligible for short-term disability, so the leave request is where the claim starts.
Two tracks, one case
Leave request
Sedgwick, the leave administrator
Disability claim
The plan decides
After the request, Sedgwick sends a letter or a portal message that says what it needs from you. Go by that message, not by what a coworker remembers from their own claim. Keep it; it is the record of what was asked. Your part is your own information and the dates. The provider's part is a statement your health care provider completes and signs, covered below.
The Walmart leave paperwork page covers the forms side of a Walmart leave.
How much does Walmart short-term disability pay?
The public overview says a short-term disability claim can "help replace part of your income." It prints a waiting period and a maximum length, which this page does not repeat, and no percentage. Those are plan terms, and they belong to the plan documents.
Two places hold your figures. The plan documents on one.walmart.com set the terms of the benefit, including the percentage, any waiting period, and how long it runs. The letter or portal message Sedgwick sends about your claim states what applies to you. If the two seem to disagree, ask your leave specialist, the person Walmart's overview names for eligibility questions.
Where your figures live
What is the Attending Physician Statement, and who completes it?
The Attending Physician Statement is the provider's part of a short-term disability claim: the pages that ask your health care provider for a diagnosis, the dates you cannot work, and your functional limitations. It is not the FMLA certification. Walmart's public overview does not name the form Sedgwick uses, so the form in your Sedgwick letter or portal message is the one that counts. The Attending Physician Statement guide walks through each section and who completes it.
- Diagnosis
- Dates you cannot work
- Functional limitations
Can you use short-term disability and FMLA at the same time?
They can run together where you are eligible for FMLA. Short-term disability pays part of your income; FMLA protects the job and is unpaid. Under 29 CFR 825.207(d), while you are receiving disability-plan benefits your employer may designate the leave as FMLA leave, and the FMLA rule about substituting paid leave does not apply, because the leave is already paid. Which one pays more, how the two overlap, and what happens when the FMLA weeks run out are on the short-term disability versus FMLA guide.
What if Sedgwick denies the claim?
The plan decides the claim; Walmart designates the leave. Read the denial letter first, because the reason it gives sets the route. The Sedgwick denial page covers the reasons Sedgwick gives, and the Sedgwick appeal guide covers the appeal, step by step. If the reason is a provider's statement that was incomplete or never arrived, that is the part the next section is about.
Who completes the provider's part of your Walmart claim?
A health care provider does, after an evaluation. If yours will not complete the statement, or has no appointment soon, Certicare can evaluate you and, where the evaluation supports it, complete the statement. A state-licensed provider evaluates you online, then completes and signs the provider's section of the form Sedgwick sent you. You upload that form at intake. Certicare does not decide the claim and does not say who qualifies; the plan decides, and your leave specialist tells you where you stand. Completing our intake form starts the review; it does not guarantee a signature, and if the review does not support your request you are refunded in full.
The intake is an online questionnaire. You answer it, upload the form Sedgwick sent, and a state-licensed provider reviews your answers. The provider may follow up for more detail before deciding whether the evaluation supports the statement. The completed, signed section comes back by email, usually within 24 hours after Certicare has everything it needs.
One flat fee
$49
It covers your full Walmart Sedgwick case: the clinical review, the certification Sedgwick requested, and any follow-up Sedgwick asks for.
$49 flat — refunded if the form can't be completed
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