A leave recipient must use accrued annual leave (or sick leave, if applicable) before using donated leave (note that beginning December 2, 1994, an eligible employee may use up to 13 days of sick leave to care for a family member, see Federal Employees Family Friendly Leave Act).
Investors assessing the safety of dividends through historical figures are missing the point. Verizon was only able to pay dividends in 2016 by selling of $6.1 billion assets. Verizon cannot continue to pay their dividends. While I am by no means a dividend investor, I feel inclined to comment on the topic.
SPY will go ex-dividend Friday, March 17th, 2017 with a dividend of $1.03312 per share. Its distribution payout will be on April 28th,2017. VOO, one of the other two big S&P 500 ETFs, will go ex-dividend the 22nd of March (estimated) with a dividend of $1.00 / share and IVV on the 24th of March with a dividend of around 1.01 share. VOO and IVV are much faster to distribute the dividendsâboth pay out within a week of their ex-dividend dates.