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Can someone please let me know if you sell your leave, do you still get your entitlements like Bah etc?
 
Not when you sell it. If you take it transitional, then you receive BAH and also accrue leave while on leave.
 
"then you receive BAH and also accrue leave while on leave"

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When you take leave, you continue to earn leave and draw all other benefits.
When you sale leave you are paid on your base salary, no other benefits.
 
Hey guys, I have 46 days of leave accrued and a retirement date of January 22. My plan as of now is to just hold in place (not take terminal leave or anything) and continue until the 22nd, and sell back the leave. I see this as the financially "smarter" move...am I right?
 
BCN59 said:
Hey guys, I have 46 days of leave accrued and a retirement date of January 22. My plan as of now is to just hold in place (not take terminal leave or anything) and continue until the 22nd, and sell back the leave. I see this as the financially "smarter" move...am I right?
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I'll be selling back 60 days of leave myself. Many people freak out when I mention this. Here is my line of logic. I am starting school in the summer time and should be out around April. So for a couple of months I will be brushing up on my coursework and relaxing at home. If I took terminal leave and got out a month or two earlier I would still just be sitting at home doing the same thing but I really don't need that much time off. So why not sit at work and then make some extra money when you get out? Unless someone has a job lined up and would be working on terminal leave then I really don't see the benefit of not selling it back. Yeah you only get a portion of what you make, but it is extra money that will help out with the transition. However, if my MEB ends up lasting longer than I expect and taking terminal leave will allow me to make my summer deadline then yes I would take it for that purpose, but other than that I plan on getting about $5,000 that I wouldn't have if I took terminal leave. Just my two cents.
 
^Exactly my line of thinking and I'm in a very similar situation myself. Thank you for your reply.
 
BCN59 said:
^Exactly my line of thinking and I'm in a very similar situation myself. Thank you for your reply.
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Literally every person at work FREAKS out when I tell them I will be selling back 60 days of leave. When I explain the math to them it usually goes over their head, so I started drawing it out on paper to help them understand. I should still get about 10 days of permissive and will have around 10-15 days of leave left after selling back 60 days so that will be sufficient.
 
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