USPS disability retirement benefits – Page 2

OPM Disability Retirement for Postal Workers & other Federal Civilian Government Employees: The Ronin

Posted onDecember 13, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The ronin is a masterless samurai; he is one who was released from any obligations from the daimyo, or feudal lord, who retained the samurai for protection and was paid a stipend. The literal translation of the term is often ascribed as a “wave man”, or one who is let go to travel adrift amidst the turbulence of the ocean waves. In modern usage, it refers to an individual who is between jobs, but can still imply vagrancy or unstable character. For the injured/ill Federal and Postal employee, filing for Federal OPM Disability Retirement through one’s agency […]

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Federal Disability Retirement: Peripheral Vision

Posted onNovember 29, 2014December 20, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Something catches one’s notice; perhaps an odd movement, a dotted color scheme of minute origins and insignificant except in contrast to the toneless surroundings; or, because of a survival instinct still active from a forgotten history of evolutionary need, a signal of caution that danger may be lurking. The eyes shift; the attempt to focus upon that which was noticed through one’s peripheral vision, is suddenly lost forever. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Reconsiderations & Additional Medical Information

Posted onOctober 18, 2014January 23, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The denial comes in the mail; it is a further delay, a negation of prior efforts; for many, it undermines and constitutes a condemnation of sorts, and a refusal of an affirmation sought in places and from people where none is offered. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Wait Processing Time

Posted onSeptember 15, 2014November 22, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

What is the time it takes to process an OPM Disability Retirement application? Most of it depends upon the delays naturally encountered throughout the process itself: the length of time doctors take in compiling the medical information requested; preparation and formulation of one’s Federal Disability Retirement forms, including the Statement of Disability; how long the agency Human Resource Office takes (is it through a local H.R. Office, or through a centralized district human resource office; for Postal employees, everything it submitted through the H.R. Shared Services office in Greesnboro, North Carolina); […] Read More …

The “Nuclear Option” after an Illness or Injury in the Federal or Postal Workplace

Posted onAugust 6, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is a parliamentary procedure justified by those who invoke it because the circumstances are of such dire contextual urgencies as to necessitate extreme measures. Such urgency of action is often characterized in a vacuum — a declarative shrill of voices that such an option could not be helped because of the counteraction (or non-action) […] Read More …

Paradigm Shifts and the Federal Employee Disability Retirement System, an Option That Was Always There

Posted onJuly 18, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Paradigms are meant to shift. A non-shifting paradigm means that there is an inherent and entrenched belief system which refuses to accommodate changes. Certain principles can retain such intractable resistance; deeply-held systems based upon historical convention, customs and cultural foundations should never […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Consciousness and the Linguistic Divide

Posted onJuly 7, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Throughout the wide expanse of Western Philosophical debates, the tension of truth has always been the subtle, often unspoken, surreptitious thread underlying the waging war of words. As the writing of history is left to the victors, so the linguistic divide between truth and falsity belongs to the mastery of words. […] Read More …

The Admixture of Incremental Deterioration of Health Conditions While on Federal Employment

Posted onJune 24, 2014June 11, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Destruction rarely comes as a sudden, tumultuous event; that is why tornadoes and hurricanes are noteworthy news items. Instead, it is the slow rot of incremental deterioration which represents the commonplace thread of destroying lives, sort of like […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Quiet Walks of Einstein and Godel

Posted onJune 13, 2014November 11, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The name of the former evokes an immediacy of recognition coupled with awe; of the giant in physics and intellectual greatness beyond ordinary excellence. The latter is lesser known, but within esoteric circles of academia, particularly in mathematics, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Once upon a Time…

Posted onJune 11, 2014September 13, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney4 Comments

Once upon a time, there were great “causes” for which people fought to live for; evil empires which desired domination and for which the world went to war; liberties denied and suppressed, resulting in meaningful mass protests; and in the microcosm of individual lives, […] Read More …