Restoration of Forfeited Annual Leave

Donald E. Muldoon, Director, Accounting Division, Region IX, Department of Housing and Urban Development, requested an advance decision regarding whether an employee may have restored to her leave account certain amounts of annual leave which were forfeited upon her acceptance of compensation for a work-related injury. The annual leave which was reinstated as a result of "buy back" is subject to the forfeiture rule since it was used rather than forfeited and since it is not credited to a separate leave account.