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OPM Form SF 3112C and the Sufficiency of the Physician’s Statement

Posted onAugust 29, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Confusing necessity and sufficiency is always a precarious matter. That which is necessary may not be sufficient for a given purpose, and failure in understanding such a fundamental distinction can be fatal to a Federal Disability Retirement claim. SF 3112C requires that a physician complete and provide essential medical information in the pursuance of a Federal Disability Retirement application. The form itself — SF 3112C — is the vehicle by which the medical documentation is obtained. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Reflections on Accommodations

Posted onJuly 19, 2014December 22, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

Because the term “accommodations” is rarely understood in its technical and legal sense, there is often the danger of a Federal or Postal employee who is filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS to “shoot one’s self in the foot” in the very use of the term […] Read More …

Paradigm Shifts and the Federal Employee Disability Retirement System, an Option That Was Always There

Posted onJuly 18, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Paradigms are meant to shift. A non-shifting paradigm means that there is an inherent and entrenched belief system which refuses to accommodate changes. Certain principles can retain such intractable resistance; deeply-held systems based upon historical convention, customs and cultural foundations should never […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Consciousness and the Linguistic Divide

Posted onJuly 7, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Throughout the wide expanse of Western Philosophical debates, the tension of truth has always been the subtle, often unspoken, surreptitious thread underlying the waging war of words. As the writing of history is left to the victors, so the linguistic divide between truth and falsity belongs to the mastery of words. […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Complexity in the Hidden Background

Posted onJuly 3, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

To prove one’s eligibility for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether one is under FERS or CSRS, is seemingly an uncomplicated matter. As one’s medical condition impacts the ability to perform one or more of the essential element of one’s job, it is up to the treating doctor to establish […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: The Bailiwick of Time

Posted onJune 16, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Time tends to incrementally, insidiously, and imperceptibly creep up and, with a sudden shudder of fright, present itself in a crisis of thought. Whether we control it; to what extent we are slaves to it; all that we can do is manage it, and to recognize that the bailiwick of time […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The Pruning Mechanism

Posted onJune 9, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is one of life’s anomalies that plants flourish and thrive with targeted pruning; too much dismembering, and the sap of life can wither; too little, and the nutrients required for new growth will be diverted to wasted areas of decay, thereby allowing for greater susceptibility […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Fragrance of Fear

Posted onMay 29, 2014December 11, 2020AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

One rarely associates fear with fragrance; perhaps with a malodorous scent, mixed with angst and perspiring anxieties just before flight; but, no, fragrance is generally linked to perfumes and similarly heightened pleasantries which enhance the attraction of attention. […] Read More …

OPM FERS/CSRS Disability Retirement: Sequential Propriety

Posted onMay 15, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

In many societies and cultures which still consider social protocol of applicable importance, correctness and orderly rectitude must be followed in rigorous detail. It is the process itself which constitutes substantive relevance, and not merely the ritual itself. […] Read More …

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Workplace Stress

Posted onMay 9, 2014January 15, 2024AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Stress is that pernicious aura, neither visible nor definable, with a spectrum of tolerance particularized by individuals, and which pervades silently and invisibly but for the manifestations through physical reactions. It can lead to both physical ailments as well as psychiatric turmoil […] Read More …