taking proactive steps to secure financial benefits with the usps after an injury or illness

Beginning the Federal Disability Retirement Process

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The Chinese proverb, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”, is meant to remind us that looking at a process in its entirety can result in self-defeat even before starting, and every daunting journey must begin with the small, almost insignificant, effort of initiation. Facing a bureaucracy and an administrative process can feel like that metaphorical journey of a thousand miles. The multiple and complex standard forms to complete […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Stuck in Time

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Each of us embraces an era, a period, a slice of time with which we relate to, have fond remembrances of, or for whatever quirky reasons, possess an affinity or attachment to. Perhaps it is the Fifties, with its stodgy reputation for conventionalism; or the radicalization […] Read More …

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: Memories

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Memories induce a peculiar phenomena; by expunging them, we can perhaps sidestep sadness and loss. With them, we are left with a lasting image of who we were, who we are, and who we have become, with a hope for recovery when we have lost our “place in society”. […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: The Futility of Waiting

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The waiting game is perhaps the most frustrating aspect of any endeavor; for, in the end, dependence upon a third party to act, when the other person, entity or agency, may in fact never act, merely increases the sense of frustration. In a Federal Disability Retirement […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Proactive Development of a Case

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The problem with medical conditions is that we tend to regard them passively, as recipients of service at a restaurant, or as victims of an automobile hit-and-run. There is some limited truth to such a perspective; for, as medical conditions come upon us without notice […] Read More …

FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Acts of Futility

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It was Heidegger who observed that our everyday lives were merely distractions in order to avoid the ultimate encounter with our own mortality — a revelation too profound to contemplate, and thus we engage in meaningless and monotonous projects in order to shift our focus […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Historical Problem

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Ultimately, before the Federal or Postal Worker considers filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, a number of factors need to be considered, including (but not limited to) the following: Can I last until regular retirement? […] Read More …