OPM Disability Retirement: The “Cover” of an FCE
Most doctors are unfamiliar with the process of obtaining Federal Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS, but are more often than not familiar with the process, procedures, […] Read More …
Federal Disability Retirement Actors – The Doctor
OPM SF 3112 Schedule C Form: The Doctor’s Statements
The lack of cooperation from a treating doctor, who is asked to provide a medical narrative report for a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS, may be based […] Read More …
Federal & Postal Service Disability Retirement: Differing Legal Criteria
Similar benefits, at the State, Local, Private levels, and at the Federal level, each contain differing legal criteria for eligibility. Thus, for instance, Social Security Disability benefits require one set of standards of eligibility […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The Doctor’s Opinion
As an attorney who represents Federal and Postal employees to “obtain” Federal Disability Retirement benefits, it is important to make distinctions within the process of securing the Federal […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: The Patient/Applicant
Before even thinking about starting the process of filing for Federal Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS, it is important for the patient/applicant to approach his or her doctor and get an initial commitment of support. For, ultimately, the most essential lynchpin of a disability retirement application […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The Doctor
Doctors hate administrative duties. They went to medical school, and they want to practice medicine, not law. If they wanted to engage in vast amounts of paperwork, they would perhaps have gone to law school. As such, paperwork, writing medical narrative reports […] Read More …
OPM Disability Retirement: The Physician II
This blog is written in response to a question posed: in the event that an individual is unable to have a medical report written by a treating physician for circumstances beyond […] Read More …
CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The Physician I
Initial inquiries concerning filing for Federal and Postal disability retirement benefits often ask the following question: Do I have a doctor to whom I can refer the individual? […] Read More …
OPM’s Medical Questionnaire and the Issue of Accommodations
In this article, I will be addressing two separate issues: First, the issue of OPM’s Medical Questionnaire, and next, the issue of Accommodations. OPM’s Medical Questionnaire At each stage of the process, an annuitant must always see his or her monthly annuity as a right which must be fought and protected. In recent months, I Read More …
Merit Systems Protection Board: A Different Animal
When an individual has attempted to obtain disability retirement under FERS or CSRS on his/her own, but has failed at both the initial stage as well as the Reconsideration Stage, while it is true that a Hearing before an Administrative Judge at the MSPB is to be heard de novo (meaning, heard “anew” and where Read More …