Paying Recipients of Donated Leave


Donated leave is wages for the recipient employee according to the IRS, Revenue Ruling 90-29. Consequently, wage-based deductions are taken from leave donations except for State retirement deductions since the leave donation law prohibits service credit from being granted during periods when donated leave is used. However, since the object of the leave donation program is to replace “take-home” pay, gross pay is adjusted to account for the retirement exception, and payments of donated leave are processed as payroll as described below.