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OPM Disability Retirement: Reflections on Winter’s Desolation

Posted onJanuary 9, 2015February 11, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Seasons bring out certain characteristics and traits of primate natures; and while artificial lighting, civilized constructs of community comforts and technological distractions of virtual reality may somewhat temper the appetitive rhythms of inherent evolutionary origins, the fact is that our attempts to suspend the reality of our nature can only be met with partial success. Winter is a time of desolation (unless, of course, one’s home is based in a climate where seasons barely change, in which case the envy of others will reach you through temporal vibrations of mental jealousies). […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Key Words, Conveyance of Information, and Satisfying the Legal Criteria

Posted onMay 3, 2014October 28, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

There is often a misunderstand about a Federal Disability Retirement application, submitted to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under FERS or CSRS: that the magic of linguistic compliance will bring about success, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Problem of Perhaps

Posted onJanuary 4, 2014April 18, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Perhaps it is time to approach the problem from a different perspective; perhaps it is not. We often engage in games of self-delusions, of allowing words of self-justification to interfere with sequential and linear lines of thinking, in order to bypass the harsh reality […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Confusion & Disarray

Posted onSeptember 13, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

A state of confusion and disarray can work in either direction; either the confused state of affairs can lead to a successful outcome (resulting from the inability to make a logically correct decision, but where a favorable outcome may randomly occur); or the state […] Read More …

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Key Words and Phrases

Posted onJune 27, 2013March 25, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

In every writing endeavor, there arises over time an identification of the efficacy of certain key words and phrases. The problem with such identification, however, is that the deliberate extrapolation and insertion of such “keys” will often lead to over usage […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: The Effective Approach

Posted onJune 17, 2013December 29, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The sales pitch comes from every direction, all vocations, countless product lines and endless announcements of fanfare and ceremony: the 3-step plan, the 5-point road to success, the 10-ways of X or Y: it is meant to be a formulaic methodology of achieving a stated […] Read More …

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: The Efficacy of an Argument

Posted onMay 27, 2013March 9, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

If a security system is never triggered, can one conclude that it has been effective? Is the failure of a system more telling than its lack of use? Can the negation of a fact be used to prove its existence and the validity of a theoretical construct? Can one argue, […] Read More …