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Federal Disability Retirement Law: Fool’s Gold

Posted onJuly 16, 2015March 2, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Pyrite is often the element mistaken for gold, with its bright yellow appearance and shiny, reflective compound. Why a given mineral is determined of greater value than another of similar appearance is a complicated affair, encapsulating economic principles of supply and demand, the fungibility and replacement feature of one over the other, and the plain fact that the elemental differentiation itself constitutes “real” versus “fake”. It is, in history books, novels and plays, a metaphor for greed, corruption, ill-fated endeavors, and motives which propel obsessions of determined failure and futility. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Reality of Accommodations

Posted onJuly 31, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Medical conditions test the value of a worker; for, while people may engage in theoretical discussions of “cost-benefits analysis”, where the cost of X is compared and contrasted to the benefit of Y, such that the hypothetical analysis results in a business decision […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Medical Retirement: Reassignment Considerations

Posted onJuly 11, 2013November 5, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

In considering filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, the issue of possible reassignment will arise — normally as a rather secondary and unimportant facet of the process — as an obligatory […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement OPM Forms: It Is a Retirement

Posted onJune 6, 2012October 19, 2018AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Federal Disability Retirement is a retirement; it is not a temporary method of compensation, and unlike OWCP under the Federal Employee’s Compensation Act (FECA), one is actually separated […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Forms: OWCP Disability & OPM Disability

Posted onOctober 15, 2010October 19, 2018AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

A good indicator that an individual is on OWCP Disability, and not on OPM (Office of Personnel Management) Disability, is that the Federal or Postal employee did nothing other […] Read More …

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: OWCP Disability

Posted onOctober 14, 2010AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Periodically, a telephone call will begin with the statement that the Federal or Postal worker has been on “Disability” for the past _____ years. The first question that must be asked is, “Are you speaking about OPM Disability Retirement?” Read More …

CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Creativity & Objectivity

Posted onAugust 11, 2009AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The Applicant’s Statement of Disability is a very personal statement; that is precisely why when I take on cases at the Second (Reconsideration) Stage, or at the Third (Merit Systems Protection Board) Stage, I have an opportunity to read heart-felt, personal, and very “emotional” […] Read More …

Important Cases Which Impact Disability Retirement Applications

Posted onMarch 19, 2008October 25, 2018AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The recent case of Vanieken-Ryals v. OPM, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, decided on November 26, 2007, cannot be overemphasized for its importance to the disability retirement process. It is, in my view, a landmark case which will greatly advance potential disability retirement applicants who base their disabilities upon psychiatric conditions. In Read More …