Reminder: Additional Carryover Leave Must Be Used in 2021

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 allowed federal employees to carry over up to 60 hours of additional unused annual leave into 2021. That additional leave must be used by the end of the year and before any other annual leave available to the employee. 

This means you’ll have to use the leave before annual leave accrued in a past year, annual leave accrued during leave year 2021, advanced annual leave, donated annual leave and restored leave. Also, the additional annual leave will not be included in any lump-sum payment for leave, such as at retirement, and it may not be donated to the leave transfer program.