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Federal Disability Retirement Layer: Cartoons & Carnivals

Posted onApril 20, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

In exclusively representing Federal employees and Postal workers to obtain Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the stories that are shared, the frustrations felt, and the tales left untold, collectively boggles the fragile mind. Yes, by now, perhaps it is a truism that nothing under the sun can further be revealed that is of a surprising nature; but it is often just the sheer cumulative absurdity which, in their aggregate compendium of events, could only have occurred in cartoons and carnivals. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Reversal of Fortune

Posted onApril 18, 2015July 28, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Life itself rarely reflects a steady, linear progression on a graph; the zig-zagging representing times of economic turmoil more accurately profiles a person’s span of existence. Moreover, one’s career is not necessarily the essence or paradigm of a given life’s experience; there are multiple factors, including emotional, births and deaths, marriages and medical conditions. How does one quantify an experience? […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Quiet Subtlety of Excellence

Posted onMarch 5, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Failure blares like a discordant trumpet in a confined space with no exit; success flows like the quiet stream on the other side of the mountain, barely noticed. In law, it is the appeal, and the written order issued therefrom, which receives the attention of the daily press. Yet, if one pauses to consider: The reason for the appeal, is the lack of success at the trial court level. For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suddenly find themselves the target of workplace hostility because of a medical condition which now prevents them from performing one or more of the essential elements of their job, it is often a surprise that they have become a focal point of interest. […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Medical Retirement: Life’s Scarring

Posted onFebruary 24, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It builds through repetition of wounding, or because it is deep, jagged, or otherwise unable to repair through normal processes of cellular regeneration. It remains a mark of a person; over time, fading through exposure to sunlight, disappearance of discoloration, and the slow erasure of the damage done through the healing process of the linear course of a lifetime, may allow for one to forget. […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Medical Retirement through the OPM: The House of Doom, with a Spare Room

Posted onDecember 16, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The inescapable tangles and chains of oblivion are often those dark recesses within one’s psyche; Houdini merely performed to the public the capacity and ability to escape physical constraints; the greater challenge for most continues in the deterioration of the psychology of despondency. Whatever the paradigm of modern medicine bases its treatment approach, whether on an organic component, subconscious repression of childhood trauma, […]

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Disability Retirement from the USPS and other Federal Government Agencies: Belonging

Posted onDecember 15, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are no more causes by which people live, and those who do, do so within an artifice of self-justifying chameleons of linguistic gibberish. Once upon a time, grand philosophical systems were propounded; from the historical backdrop of Plato’s Republic, to the teleological schemata of Aristotle’s Metaphysics; to Aquinas’ Christian worldview, Kant’s bifurcation of the known and knowable worlds; but with deconstructionism, linguistic playgrounds of modernity, and the debunking of political innocence with the advent of information technology and the dissemination of all things private melded into the public arena, where Facebook constitutes the quantitative assemblage of friends, likes and self-promoted happiness on virtual images of frozen smiles and milk-white teeth; and in the end, what we are left with is a needed sense of belonging. […]

OPM Disability Retirement for Postal Workers & other Federal Civilian Government Employees: The Ronin

Posted onDecember 13, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The ronin is a masterless samurai; he is one who was released from any obligations from the daimyo, or feudal lord, who retained the samurai for protection and was paid a stipend. The literal translation of the term is often ascribed as a “wave man”, or one who is let go to travel adrift amidst the turbulence of the ocean waves. In modern usage, it refers to an individual who is between jobs, but can still imply vagrancy or unstable character. For the injured/ill Federal and Postal employee, filing for Federal OPM Disability Retirement through one’s agency […]

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