Q. You have stated “Annual leave can’t be used to increase your length of service.” I’m not sure what that means. If I have four weeks of annual leave and want my official retirement date to be June 30, for example, why can’t I stop coming to work (i.e., use the annual leave that I earned) four weeks before June 30?
A. You might like to use up a block of annual leave before retiring, but you can’t. The Comptroller General has ruled that employees may not take terminal leave.
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If your management agrees, you can come back for one day to out-process HR after you use your leave. That is not terminal leave, That is what I did.
You can use all your annual leave at the end according to your agency’s annual leave policy.