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[quote=Anonymous]FIRREA agencies (the financial agencies that also operate on a different payscale than GS agencies) frequently offer STD and LTD policies for purchase to employees, but most agencies do not.

As OP points out, privately purchasing disability insurance generally requires a health check, whereas employer-provided policies frequently have an onboarding grace period where you can purchase insurance without an exam.

Also, there are two routes for donated leave--there is a leave bank, if one is already a member, as well as the Voluntary Leave Transfer Program, where agency members can donate leave directly to individuals who have applied to the program.

If your agency has a union, frequently the union is handling the communications or "begging" messages, as some people put it.

I would encourage the OP to reach out to HR, as allowing advanced leave is generally an agency decision. A supervisor can elect to not allow advanced leave for annual leave (for example, a new employee had made vacation plans before changing jobs), but I don't think they are the deciding vote for medical/FMLA issues. Also I would encourage them to reach out to HR around accommodations for their disabling event for when they try to go back to work. Unless OP has been a federal employee for less than a year and/or is already on probation, it is very difficult to separate an employee around performance issues resulting from a medical event. I know multiple people who barely worked for over a year before separation negotiations were concluded.[/quote]

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