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last year, when I set my retirement date for December 2025...I thought it would be a good way to wind down my career, but at our agency, it was very hard to get approved.

Yeah, I can't speak for other agencies about how they put people on extended admin leave, but at my agency, there were no escalation steps when it came to clearances, because it wasn't the supervisors putting them on admin, it was the security office. When they decided someone had to be re-adjudicated, they were out immediately. I never had an employee on extended admin leave for anything other than clearance issues.

I had one employee who we suspected of timecard fraud...after a lengthy investigation, the fraud was confirmed, she admitted it, was put on unpaid leave for two weeks and had to pay the money back. Two months after she came back to work, the security office called me, asked me to set up a meeting with her in my office, and they took her badges, had her accounts shut down, and she was put on paid admin leave. Turns out that when they reviewed the file on the timecard fraud, they did a quick credit check, and she was found to be behind in paying one of her bills, but she hadn't reported it, as is required. So she was out for months while they re-investigated and re-adjudicated her clearance.