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OPM Retirement for Mental or Physical Incapacity: Maintaining a schedule

Posted onAugust 31, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We all abide by them, strive to meet them and toil to achieve them. We claim that we control “it”, but in fact, it often becomes the monster which completely constrains and restrains, overpowers and undermines. Maintaining a schedule in life is important. Some, because of unknown past issues or current difficulties, cannot stand by and allow for a violation of it; others, with more daring personalities and flighty egos, defy it deliberately and result in floundering about without a purposive intent or constructive content. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: The monster within

Posted onAugust 29, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are gargoyles we imagine, which are scarier than those in real life – unless we mean by them the ones who plan to do us harm (and not just murderers, rapists and other violators of the social contract scheme). For the latter, we have laws, self-defensive mechanisms, and the ultimate justification for flight, and sometimes they work, at others, partially or not at all. We can spend a lifetime fretting over the monsters without; it is those within – the former that haunts and never leaves the home of the mind – that destroy without a finger lifted. For, in the end, it is fear that defeats, and that is well known by students of military strategy. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement Benefits: The Diary

Posted onJune 28, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Many begin the process at an early age, then abandon it with little remorse or afterthought, as a worthless project discarded for want of inherent value; and when, years and even decades later, it is discovered behind a bureau or a secret cubbyhole where trinkets and memorabilia retaining an eternal aura of privately precious remembrances are stored away, we shriek with joy as if the lottery had been won, a proposal has been declared, or a camouflaged vault containing the mysteries of gemstones […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The pleasantry of paper’s caress

Posted onJune 21, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Will the electronic tablet ever replace paper’s longstanding sovereignty? The invention, dissemination and widespread availability of paper was a notable mark in human progression — if only for what it allowed in establishing communication, transfusion of knowledge and conveyance of data. Like Gutenberg’s movable type printing press, the cotton gin, the Model T Ford and the computer chip of modernity, such inventions became, in retrospect, tumultuous benchmarks of human advancement. If advertising images reflect a hope of an industry, it is clear that paper’s replacement is a target of that sector. […] Read More …