Federal Disability Retirement: Speaking with the Doctor
Communication is the key to a successful outcome: such a trite truism is certainly applicable in a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS & CSRS. The primary focus […] Read More …
advising your treating doctor about your opm disability application
FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Patient-Doctor Relationship II
Part of a patient-doctor relationship (and I intentionally placed the term “patient” before the hyphenation to “doctor”, because the primacy of the relationship should recognize […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: A Doctor’s Comfort Level
Doctors are funny creatures. Administrative matters are often distasteful; yet, most doctors recognize that it is a necessary evil as part of the general practice of medicine. […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement for Federal and Postal Employees: Doctors Do Want to Help
It is rare that a treating doctor fails to help, or refuses to help. Yes, “getting involved” in a “legal case” is not only a headache, but for a doctor, it is often an intimidating experience, […] Read More …
FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The Family Doctor and the Surgeon
I am often asked whether or not a medical report from the “specialist” will have a greater impact than a family doctor. Implied in such a question, of course, is a perspective which tends […] Read More …
Federal & Postal Service Disability Retirement: Differing Legal Criteria
Similar benefits, at the State, Local, Private levels, and at the Federal level, each contain differing legal criteria for eligibility. Thus, for instance, Social Security Disability benefits require one set of standards of eligibility […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: Thank the Medical Professionals
If not for the doctors, disability retirement would obviously not be a possibility. Of course, one may make the self-evident statement that being supportive of a Federal Disability Retirement application is simply part of a doctor’s job; and, to some extent, […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: The Doctor II
Work is good for a person — being productive, being useful, being a contributing member of a team, an agency, an organization; it provides a sense of self-worth, dignity, and therapy. On the one side, that is why a Federal or Postal worker takes such a long […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The Doctor & the Applicant
Before a client hires an attorney to obtain Federal Disability Retirement Benefits under FERS or CSRS, it is important that he or she has an initial commitment from the treating doctor, that a medical narrative report discussing and addressing the specific issues […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: The Patient/Applicant
Before even thinking about starting the process of filing for Federal Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS, it is important for the patient/applicant to approach his or her doctor and get an initial commitment of support. For, ultimately, the most essential lynchpin of a disability retirement application […] Read More …