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 …
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Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Exaggerated Focus
Often, in preparing and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application, the distractions of collateral issues can be heightened to a level of exaggerated focus, such that it […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Don’t Assume
We are all familiar with the acronym-like adage which can be extracted from the word “assume”. In preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS, the first question […] 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 …
Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: The Necessary Doctor
Ultimately, the doctor who is necessary is the one who will be supportive. Whenever the question is asked of me whether it is “necessary” to have the support of this or that doctor, […] Read More …
Federal Disability Retirement: Developing a Case
In most cases, the normal process of disability retirement for the First Stage of the process is anywhere from 6 – 8 months; some fall towards the 6-month range; some take longer […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: Agency’s Power
I hear it in both the content of the question and the anxiousness in the voice of a potential client seeking representation to obtain Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS: Can the agency influence the […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Pre and Post
Issues revolving around the initial application stage, during the application stage, and after the approval, are often of equal importance. This is because the approval of a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS will ensure the financial and economic survival and viability […] 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’s Medical Questionnaire and the Issue of Accommodations
In this article, I will be addressing two separate issues: First, the issue of OPM’s Medical Questionnaire, and next, the issue of Accommodations. OPM’s Medical Questionnaire At each stage of the process, an annuitant must always see his or her monthly annuity as a right which must be fought and protected. In recent months, I Read More …