OPM Disability Retirement: In a Perfect World
Becoming distracted from the essential focus of an activity is a problem which we all face. In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the Office […] Read More …
focusing on the direct issues
Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Collateral Source Impact
The persuasive impact from collateral sources can take one of two primary forms: legal or medical. In fighting for one’s Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, […] Read More …
Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Central v. Peripheral Issues
In preparing, formulating and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), it has been variously pointed out […] Read More …
Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Workplace Issues
The reason why workplace issues, whether having any relevance in a Federal Disability Retirement application or not, continue to be insidious in their persistent appearance and stubborn […] Read More …
Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Issue of Discretion
A Federal or Postal employee who is filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS may also be undergoing concurrent disciplinary proceedings, or engaged in corollary […] Read More …
Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Issues
The issues upon which the Office of Personnel Management denies a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS are normally rather limited. […] Read More …
Federal Worker Disability Retirement: MSPB & Prehearing
When a Federal Disability Retirement case has been denied by the Office of Personnel Management at the Initial Stage of the application process, and then again at the Reconsideration […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: Fairness
“Fairness” is a difficult concept to set aside, even when it is in the best interests of one to do so. The underlying list of supporting reasons may be many — that the Agency […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: Determining Peripheral Issues
It is important in preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application to make the distinction between essential, substantive issues which will need to be addressed, and those issues […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The Proper Focus of the Attorney
Have you heard of the fable about the general who led a vast and unstoppable army, with multitudes of foot soldiers, artillery, supply lines, a vast ocean of destructive power — who stopped to console a woman who had lost her […] Read More …