Pre-Application Considerations – Federal Disability Attorney

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: Working to preclude

Posted onOctober 18, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Aren’t most of us perennially, incessantly, constantly and by chronic despair in that “emergency mode” of operating through life? We are working to preclude: Some imagined disaster; some trouble just around the corner; some depth of a hole we cannot dig ourselves out of; and some problem that we are thinking about that is developing that we are not yet aware of. Few of us actually work with a positive attitude to build; […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: False Promises

Posted onMarch 15, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is it an oxymoron? If it is made, how can it be negated by untruth; for, if it is a nothingness at the outset which compels null and void the substantive content of the thing itself, how can it purport to be what it is while at the same time creating an abyss of meaninglessness? A promise cannot be false if it is to have the very meaning of a promise; and yet, we know that there exists such falsity of posited assurances, if not proposed by dishonest individuals and con-men, then at least by unintentional or otherwise mistaken pillars of vain malfeasance. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Answering Questions

Posted onMarch 13, 2017January 8, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

How do we come to learn how to do it? Certainly, we come across certain eccentric individuals who defy every conventional norm, and somehow manage to appear as if they have done what otherwise we recognize as not having been completed. Have you ever come across someone who just isn’t “quite right” – such that, when you ask a question, the tangents that flood forth and the meandering thought processes make it an arbitrary conclusion as to whether it was the specific question asked that prompted the incommensurate response, or just the mere fact of a tonal posit of a question-like query that compelled a verbal reaction, even if it has nothing to do with the substance of the question itself? […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Leaving things to pure chance

Posted onMarch 2, 2017January 21, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We rarely do that. Yes, we sometimes allow for a partiality of such circumstances to remain, knowing that it may or may not happen; but the conceptual distinction between “pure” and left otherwise is a gap likened between omniscience and imperfect knowledge, or the ability to observe brilliance in action while the rest of us scrounge about for some semblance of competence. Then, of course, there is a wide chasm in the spectrum of what it means to leave things to chance, in contradistinction to “pure” chance. The difference is often seen as tantamount to the extreme arbitrariness of lack of human involvement […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Law: The voice of constructive criticism

Posted onFebruary 28, 2017August 3, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is rare for the individual to accept constructive criticism; rarer still, to invite and welcome it in any form, whether destructive, constructive or otherwise characterized as “positive”, “negative” or “neutral”. The fact is that few of us accept any form of it at all, and quickly respond with the rebuttal: “It’s not constructive”. But why does it need to be? […] Read More …

Civil Service Disability Retirement: The value of properly preparing

Posted onFebruary 7, 2017August 17, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Each and every stage of a Federal Disability Retirement process is important to view in the preparation of a Federal Disability Retirement application. You cannot take any stage of the process in a vacuum; for example, answering SF 3112A, Applicant’s Statement of Disability, in and of itself forces one to consider stages beyond the Initial Stage of the process. Questions to ask: Are you bound by your answers without the possibility of further amendments to the narrative delineation you submit? Can changes, amendments, additions be made even after a CSA/Case number is assigned by Boyers, Pennsylvania […] Read More …

FERS Disability Retirement Application: The tools we have for use

Posted onFebruary 4, 2017December 24, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The foundation is always “all-important”; but there are other tools at one’s disposal, and the question is: Do we know and recognize what those tools are, and if not, how can we use them out of ignorance? How does SSDI intersect with FERS Disability retirement – not the issue of offsetting the concurrent payments after approval of each (that is merely a monetary calculation that has nothing to do with getting a FERS Disability Retirement application approved); rather, should an approval of an SSDI application have a legal impact upon a FERS Disability Retirement? […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement Law: The mish-mash approach

Posted onFebruary 3, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Do you have a linear, sequential methodology? Is the legal argumentation systematically constructed? Or, is the mish-mash approach consigned – of a hodgepodge of thousands of hands at needlepoint in creating a colorful quilt for the Fall Festival of creative designs? Is the Bruner Presumption invoked as an afterthought, and the Bracey-argument concerning accommodations defined in an obfuscated manner, such that the argument reveals more about what you do not know and understand, than of a pin-point accuracy as to the sharpening and attacking of the issues preemptively recognized? […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: The factors to consider

Posted onJanuary 25, 2017February 15, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Whenever a problem arises, are you the kind of person who immediately rushes headfirst in order to “solve” it? Are you like a first responder who by necessity, duty or conscience of being, sprints to save and runs to resolve? Or, in contradistinction to circumstances that require thoughtless effort but urgent actions, do you consider the factors and ask the question, What criteria must be applied? […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement Law: The Steps to Take

Posted onJanuary 9, 2017January 17, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Life is often overwhelming enough. Then, when a medical condition make its initial entrance, remains for more than a fortnight and begins to impede, curtail and prevent one from doing the things one has taken for granted – the problem becomes more than just a nuisance, but a magnification and exponential exaggeration beyond that which was a burden to begin with: another problem adding to a host of problems. In life, we often know what needs to be done, and sometimes even the “how” in going about solving problems. But the capacity to prioritize and organize, to sort a jumble into a linear coherency, and to gather the necessary components into a cogent whole, is often the problem that prevents one from moving forward. […] Read More …