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Dollars & $ense: Expiration of 75-Day Leave Carryover for Military

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  • By Senior Airman Thomas Ramirez
  • 14th Comptroller Squadron Customer Service
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. --  Effective Sept. 30, 2015, the 75-day leave carryover policy that has allowed members to carry more than 60 days of leave from the prior fiscal year will expire.

Any leave balance over 60 days at the end of fiscal 2015 will be automatically forfeited. Only members entitled to Special Leave Accrual will be allowed to carry a leave balance over 65 days.

SLA is for members faced with circumstances that prohibit them from taking leave, which force the member to accumulate a leave balance in excess of 60 days. Circumstances that prevent members from using their leave must have been caused by a catastrophe, national emergency and/or crisis, or operations in defense of national security such as a deployment.

In the coming months please pay special attention to your Leave and Earnings Statement, as it is the most reliable method to find your current leave balance. However, until further notice the use/lose balance on your LES will not be a true reflection of your actual use/lose balance. This issue is because the master military pay accounts for each member of the Air Force have not yet been updated accordingly. At this time there is no timetable for when LESs will show the correct use/lose balance. As a reminder for each remaining month in fiscal 2015, you will accrue 2.5 days; keep this in mind when calculating the number of days of leave you may need to take this year.

In the event the 75-day leave carryover policy is extended beyond fiscal 2015, the Financial Services Office will work hand in hand with the Military Personnel Section to distribute any and all information right away.

Please feel free to contact your 14th Comptroller Squadron anytime Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. to verify or address any concerns pertaining to your leave balances or any other finance related matters. Finance can be reached via email at 14CPTS.FCS@us.af.mil, at DSN 742-2705, or at the Finance office located in the main lobby of the 14th Mission Support Group building.

Reference used: AFI 36-3003, Chapter 10