examples of how free misinformation can cost a disabled federal employee medical retirement benefits

Misnomers and the OPM’s Disability, Reconsideration & Appeals Division

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The problem with misnomers is not just the inaccuracy of designation which is either explicitly or implicitly conveyed, but the unintended consequences of the string of reactions and responses which can occur as a result thereof. Sometimes, interpretive mistakes occur purely on a subjective basis; in which case it is not truly a case of a misnomer, but rather merely the misunderstanding by the recipient of the information. Other times, a word or designation can be open to multiple meanings, […] Read More …

Federal Gov. and USPS Disability Retirement: Information Overload

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Before we even became comfortable with the assignation of the term, “information age”, we were informed that we have already entered into the “post information age”; one has no idea where one stands today because of the lightning speed of our times. Whether human nature […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Misinformation Leading to Self-defeating Actions

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The “I was told” phenomenon is pervasive in our society, where information is plentiful, and more dangerously, where the dissemination of such information, at no cost to the recipient […] Read More …