Voluntary Disability: Short Term Disability
Duke University Employees
All active full-time employees excluding Faculty, Private Diagnostic Clinic faculty and house staff. Full-time Clinical
Associates and Consulting Associates are eligible for this program.
Duke Health System Employees
All active full-time employees excluding faculty and house staff. Full-time Clinical Associates
and Consulting Associates are eligible for this program.
Voluntary STD is for those who have not accumulated many sick leave days and/or do not have
enough emergency savings to manage up to four months without a paycheck.
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This plan replaces up to 60% of your weekly base salary to a maximum weekly
benefit of $2,885.
Voluntary Short Term Disability (STD) benefits cover disabilities that are not job related.
However, benefits will be reduced by the amount of other income benefits you
receive while disabled, such as Social Security, sick leave or paid time off. Regardless of these offsets, the minimum benefit is $15 per week for
Voluntary STD.
When Benefits Begin
For Duke University employees, voluntary STD benefits begin after four
weeks and continue for up to 13 weeks of total disability. Any or all of the
employee's sick leave may be used during the
four week waiting period. There is no employer-provided STD coverage
for University employees.
For Duke University Health System (DUHS) employees with fewer than three years of full-time
continuous service, voluntary STD benefits begin after four weeks and continue for up to 22
weeks of total disability. For DUHS employees with three or more years of fulltime continuous
service, voluntary STD benefits begin after four weeks and continue for up to eight weeks of
total disability.
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