Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: The Legal Responses

There is of course the old adage that “good fences make good neighbors”. It is meant to magnify the importance of demarcations, and how societal mores, rules, and accepted dictates of […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: The Left and Right Hands

Having two hands in and of itself does not guarantee cooperation of effort or a manifestation of symphonic coordination. If the two hands (or more) are contributed by two or more people, […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: The Reason for the Law’s Complexity

The growing complexity of any body of law often reflects the unintended consequences of a poorly-written statute which first created the access to a right, a benefit, or a legal assertion. […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Complexity & the Law

The complaint heard most prevalent is that the “law” is deliberately complicated for the benefit of lawyers, and to the detriment of the lay person. That is the one of the points which Dickens […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Continuation of the Offset Issue

As noted previously, the issue of whether or not OPM needs to recalculate one’s FERS Disability Retirement annuity upon losing one’s SSDI benefits should now be resolved. The U.S. Office […] Read More …