Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: Filing
The actual filing of a FERS Disability Retirement application with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, can be rather anti-climactic, […] Read More …
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Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Jump from Theory to Application
Language is an anomaly; as an intermediate tool, it can spur action; as a direct means of causation, it can have an immediate impact (as in argumentation and persuasive rhetoric), or merely […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Theoretical, Practical and Mechanical Realms
Just as Aristotle identified the conceptual distinction between two kinds of wisdom — theoretical and practical — so such a distinction, along with a third (mechanical), resulting […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: Advancing from Thought to Action
In speaking with thousands of Federal and Postal employees, it is the pervasive thread of the final step which emanates from the uniqueness of each case, where the realization of that which […] Read More …
Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Chronic Pain
Chronic pain in a Federal Disability Retirement application can result in a “catch-22” (as that famous Joseph Heller novel forever captured that phrase) — on the one hand, the diffuse and radiating, […] Read More …
Federal and Postal Service Disability Retirement: Psychiatric Disabilities & the Holidays
Christmas, New Years & the Holidays; psychiatric disabilities of Major Depression, Anxiety, panic attacks, and many others; the mixture of the two often create an admixture of […] Read More …
Federal Disability Retirement: The Right Time (Part 2)
How to determine when is the “right” time to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS & CSRS, and when is the right time — those are issues which are quite personal and peculiar […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: The Right Time
For each Federal and Postal employee, there is a “right” time to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS & CSRS. By “right time”, I do not mean as to the proper timing in […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The Decision (Again)
Yes, it is a difficult decision to make — to come to terms with filing for Federal Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS. It makes it all the more difficult when individuals wait until the […] Read More …