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The Effective Use of Language in the Federal Disability Retirement Application

Posted onOctober 13, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

As a paper presentation to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal Disability Retirement must by necessity be based upon the effective use of language. Language — that all-encompassing compendium of vocabulary, grammar, word-choice, topical selection, verbs, descriptive ascriptions, use of nouns and action verbs, etc. — is the vehicle of requirement, all within the constraints of providing validating evidentiary proof in preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application; and it must be delineated within the purview of factual validation and guided by truth within […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: The Rule of Words

Posted onMarch 25, 2014December 26, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

When does a child recognize the power of language? Perhaps it is at the moment when the ineffective response to a tantrum occurs, precisely because the demands conveyed by the destructive actions have not been adequately understood. But once the verbal […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Communication

Posted onJanuary 7, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney4 Comments

The ability to communicate involves a complex process: the capacity to identify and understand what needs to be communicated and for what purpose; retrieval of information and tools of communication from one’s storehouse and warehouse of knowledge; […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Responding to Stupidity

Posted onOctober 8, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Sometimes, one’s initial reaction in a situation — professional setting, social discourse, event gathering, etc. — requires a momentary pause; and it is precisely that couple of seconds of gathering one’s thoughts which saves one from further putting fuel upon […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Divide between Words and Reality

Posted onSeptember 19, 2013November 11, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The problem with the linguistic universe is that they create a parallel universe which can be completely devoid of any connection or correspondence to the reality of the world which we occupy; thus the span of genres of imaginary creations, including fiction, […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: Getting the Right Nomenclature

Posted onJune 7, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Throughout the history of philosophy, there was a pervasive presumption that substantive questions concerning Being, Truth and Falsity, reality versus appearances — and a wide spectrum of similar conundrums wrapped within the mystery of life within a coil of […] Read More …

The Effective Use of Language in the Federal Disability Retirement Application

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: The Rule of Words

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Communication

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Responding to Stupidity

OPM Disability Retirement: The Divide between Words and Reality

Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: Getting the Right Nomenclature

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: The Language Used

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Impersonal File

Federal Disability Retirement: Showtime

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Knowing the Terms