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Federal Medical Retirement: The Other Side of Darkness…

Posted onAugust 12, 2015November 4, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Darkness can take many forms; of the physical omission of light, the loss of visual capacity, or the mood of a person within the context of modernity, complexity and loss of moral intransigence. Light provides the energy of life, and when that core vibrancy is sapped and depleted by either or all of the sources of light, then darkness prevails. Once extinguished, the last remaining flicker persists only through sheer self-determination, a plan for future reigniting, or the delicate cherishing of a hope still unforeseen.[…] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Systemic Problems

Posted onJuly 3, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

When the residual impact of a crisis goes well beyond cosmetic concerns, the usual and customary description is that the “cause” involves “systemic” problems. Such foundational fissures can occur both in organizations, as well as in individuals. For Federal agencies, it may require a need for new leadership, or a restructuring of internal chains of command, and sometimes even outside intervention. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer: At What Cost?

Posted onApril 16, 2015November 5, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The introduction of the “cost-benefit analysis” (CBA) by the French (who else?) is a quantitative approach in determining whether to go forward with a given project. There are other approaches, of course, but the popularity of such a utilitarian paradigm is especially attractive to Americans, precisely because it allegedly places a determinable value upon the project, endeavor or issue in question. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Attorney: Social Justice

Posted onApril 13, 2015February 5, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Concurrent litigation entanglements occur often enough; if one has the capacity and ability to compartmentalize life, such multi-adversarial offensives can be effectively coordinated. At the same time, however, it is important to recognize the folly of spreading oneself too thin; history confirms the defeats suffered at the principle of too much, too soon, as in Germany’s incursion on the Eastern Front while taking on North Africa and the entrance of the United States into a reluctant war. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement Law Blog: The Mannequin

Posted onApril 3, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The garment may alter, but the pose remains stilted; and no matter what angle the inertia of fashion may be looked at, the expression remains impassive and impenetrable. Mannequins pose for the public, display the wears without complaint, and fill spaces without disturbances or complaints. They simply “are”. Such an existence — of an uncomplaining coexistence with eyes meant to attract upon the changing appearances intended to detract […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Value & Worth

Posted onJanuary 19, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

The two are often intertwined; what is of value is considered something of worth, and that which has an ascribed worth, is viewed as a thing of value. If an objective, marketplace standard is applied, then the value of X may be disconnected from the worth of X; for, while X may retain little or no monetary value, the worth of the object to an individual may still endure (for sentimental reasons, emotional attachment, etc.). Where human beings are considered, however, exceptions as to the inextricable conceptual intermingling of value and worth must prevail; but there again, […]

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Hostile Work Environment in Federal Employment

Posted onSeptember 16, 2014September 23, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Perhaps it is an inevitability. When a Federal employee or a U.S. Postal worker suffers from a medical condition, such that the medical condition begins to impact one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, the reaction of the agency for whom he or she works (or the U.S. Postal Service), is often one of lack of supportive behaviors, to propose an understatement.

Reacting to a reactionary response, however, is not always the intelligent thing to do. When the Federal employee or the U.S. Postal Service recognizes a need to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal and Postal Employees: The Diatribe

Posted onJuly 31, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There may well be an appropriate time for a lengthy diatribe. The act itself often finds its impetus in bitterness; it also implies a lack of control, overwhelmed by anger and originating in attribution by an act of injustice. But where emotion controls rationality, the loss of sequential propriety normally results in a corresponding lack of coherence […] Read More …