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Claim for Annual and Sick Leave

B-206515 Apr 23, 1982
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A Federal employee suffered a heart attack and had been on sick leave, except for 33 hours of annual leave, since that time. The employee still had annual leave and sick leave to his credit when his application for disability retirement was approved by the Office of Personnel Management. The employee remained on sick leave not to exceed his last day of eligibility for paid leave. GAO was asked about the employee's entitlement to terminal leave and the consequent calculation of his last day of pay. The Federal Personnel Management Supplement states that, when an employee is on sick leave at the time that his disability retirement is approved, he should be afforded the opportunity to select a separation date which is most advantageous to him. During the period of sick leave, he continues to accrue both sick leave and annual leave to his credit and continues to be entitled to be paid for intervening holidays. When the employee's sick leave account was exhausted, the agency was required, under the terminal leave rule, to separate him as soon as practical. He was entitled to be paid a lump-sum leave payment for his annual leave balance. However, he was not entitled to pay for holidays during the period covered by his lump-sum leave payment.

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