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FTCA Two-Year Presentment and Six-Month Date Calculator

Calculate unadjusted federal presentment, agency-inaction, and denial-mailing markers from user-confirmed dates

Output scope

Reviewed federal branch: unadjusted FTCA presentment, agency-inaction, and denial-mailing calendar markers. Accrual, exhaustion, state claims, and legal effect remain held.

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What this workpaper does

This calculator adds the ordinary two-year and six-month FTCA calendar intervals to the user-confirmed dates. The dates are unadjusted markers: it does not determine accrual, proper presentment, mailing effect, exhaustion, reconsideration, a state-law claim, or the actual filing deadline.

Use it when: A government entity, employee, facility, or contractor may be involved.

Page reviewed: August 24, 2026
Source links checked: August 21, 2026
Implemented rule scope: Unadjusted 28 U.S.C. §§ 2401(b) and 2675 date markers; accrual and legal effect are not decided

Method

This workpaper uses deterministic arithmetic, chronology, reconciliation, or coverage logic from the entered fields. It does not persist client facts or send field values to general analytics.

The result is an attorney workpaper, not a legal conclusion. Verify current primary authority and every fact against the file.

Before relying on it

01Confirm the responsible entity and federal-agency relationship.
02Verify accrual, presentment, and denial dates from the source record.
03Review mailing, reconsideration, and exhaustion facts.
04Calendar the actual deadline only after applying current federal and any separate state authority.

What the workpaper returns

Unadjusted two-year presentment marker
Six-month agency-inaction marker
Unadjusted denial-to-suit marker
Accrual, exhaustion, reconsideration, and state-claim questions for attorney review

Representative facts

Worked example

Scenario: An entered incident or accrual date is January 15, 2026, the administrative claim date is October 1, 2026, and the entered denial date is November 30, 2026.
Result: The workpaper returns January 15, 2028 as the unadjusted presentment marker, April 1, 2027 as the six-month agency-inaction marker, and May 30, 2027 as the unadjusted denial-to-suit marker.
Boundary: Accrual, presentment validity, mailing method, reconsideration, contractor status, exhaustion, nonworkday treatment, and any state or local notice rule remain for attorney review.

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