Last Updated on February 8, 2014
Power outages resulting from an ice storm are humbling experiences; it reveals the extent of how dependent we are upon electricity and how interconnected everything is.
For Federal and Postal employees who suffer from a medical condition, of course, such an experience is one which is daily felt through the deterioration of one’s health: the interconnected dependency upon the power source of one’s body. The steady decline of power and vibrancy is what the Federal and Postal worker has relied upon for so many years — for work, family, career and livelihood. When that main switch begins to fray, all of the ancillary dependencies begin to suffer. When the impact of that “power outage” results in one’s inability to perform the essential elements of one’s job, it is time for repair and troubleshooting.
Preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is a means to an end; the means require recognition of the need; the end is to reinvigorate the power source.
May this winter of 2014 begin to thaw out and allow for such rejuvenation.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire