OPM Disability Retirement: Blindly Forging Forward
The success of every endeavor encompasses a wide and vast array of preparation not seen, rarely apparent, and never obvious. It is the time of engagement “behind the scenes” […] Read More …
when the injured federal worker sails into unknown waters
Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Where to Begin
The captain of a ship docked in a harbor knows three things: Where the ship came from; where it is; where it will be going next. If any of the three are missing from the thought-processes […] Read More …
Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: Questions Abound
Questions abound when first encountering the possibility of needing to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, whether under FERS or CSRS, from the U.S. Office of Personnel […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Wind Chime
Wind chimes are interesting objects; at once created to provide a soothing, mellifluous sound, they are often the product of artificiality attempting to mimic nature, and normally presented […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: Preempting Anticipated Problems
The obvious and self-evident problems of many can be characterized as failing to know what the questions are; for, if the question is unknown, how can one provide an answer? […] Read More …
Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The Adversarial Structure
Preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, has inherently an […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Choices
One immediately hears it in the voice — of the frustration and desire to simply give up. But “giving up” is simply not a choice, if one refuses to acknowledge such an option and fails […] Read More …
Federal Disability Retirement: The Necessity of Recognition
For all of the Federal and Postal employees who are contemplating preparing, formulating or filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits either under FERS or CSRS, it is important to […] Read More …
Federal Worker Disability Retirement: MSPB & Prehearing
When a Federal Disability Retirement case has been denied by the Office of Personnel Management at the Initial Stage of the application process, and then again at the Reconsideration […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: Knowledge
It has often been noted that “knowledge is power”, which necessarily and logically implies, of course, that lack of knowledge leaves one with weakness. Preparing a Federal Disability […] Read More …