Board Memo 036-18 - Retroactive SDA for 5,700 EAS

NAPS received an email confirmation from USPS HQ in regards to the SDA Retroactive Payment to an estimated 5,700 employees which NAPS brought to the USPS’ attention in April 2017. (Attached) NAPS has been informed that this SDA retroactive payment was processed on November 24, 2018 and will be paid to active employees in this week’s paycheck on December 7.

Almost 5,200 employees will receive this payment. Unfortunately, the payment to the less than 500 employees that have since retired has not been finalized. NAPS will be updated on the payment to those respective retirees once known.

In conversation with USPS HQ, NAPS had requested either the retroactive SDA be rolled into those respective EAS’s base salary or EAS receive a lump-sum payment that would be higher than the retroactive SDA to compensate those impacted EAS for the SDA delay. USPS elected to provide the respective SDA in a lump sum payment. Therefore, the 5,700 employees assigned to one of the three position groups will receive a retroactive SDA lump sum payment as follows: