Last Updated on January 24, 2013
The end product of a case — how it reads; the coordination of the facts, statements, allegations, and citation of law, etc. — reflects the process in which one has undertaken in order to arrive at that endpoint.
Some cases present themselves like a compilation of bumps and potholes; others, as if a roadmap was never consulted and the wide expanse of the universe became a meandering and directionless compass. Maps and compasses serve a purpose; they provide the traveler with a focused direction and purpose, and a sense that there is a straight line between two points — where to start, and where to go.
In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, it is important to have a sense of direction — a purposive roadmap in which the preparer of the application for Federal Disability Retirement benefits knows, understands, and implements a plan to reach the stated goal: an approval from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Yet, even the best of such preparers can never guarantee the successful outcome sought.
What the “best of them” can do, however, is to take the terrain of the road, put forth a plan for the best route, then guide the “traveler” in the most efficient and effective manner possible. One must work with the facts, and even if the facts are not always favorable, to give the best chance by avoiding dangerous pitfalls, and to present the safest route to the destination, all of which will provide the greatest opportunity for success.
How one gets from point A to destination B is the key to a successful Federal Disability Retirement application.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
Can client be still in stage one after discharge and have from OPM case number already assigned to your client but not been process all the way by the Veteran Administration Hospital as a FERS discharge employee or OPM yet? Or does go to stage two?