an important medical issue with financial repercussions: fers disability retirement

OPM Disability Retirement: The Semblance of Joy

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Happiness is but a fleeting moment; satisfaction is but the natural result of completion; but joy, that is a tincture derived from the depths of one’s soul. Perhaps there is an element of word-play; how we define levels of emotional states of being can depend upon the contextual usage of each conceptual construct, and in the end it is how we have described a given set of circumstances, based upon our personal experiential encounters and what sense of being we perceived at the time. […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: What Was It All For?

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In the midst of a crisis, when the security of the mundane is replaced by the turmoil of fears, “what ifs”, pain, intrusive nightmares, suicidal ideations, profound fatigue, and the uncertainty of one’s future, questions begin to haunt and abound, enveloping decisions of past moments […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Fear, Anxiety, Loathing and Acting

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To “act” can have multiple meanings; one can be engaged in “make believe”, or merely doing something as opposed to talking about it. One can participate in a pretense (“he was putting on an act”); but perhaps engaging in pretense is not dissimilar (forgive the double […] Read More …

FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Cumulative Impact

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In economics, the concept of cumulative growth is important in understanding the progressive and incremental increase, no matter how minimal in the short term, over decades and centuries upon an individual’s and the greater society’s wealth accumulation. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Subtraction

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The principle of abundance implicates progressive and unending addition, resulting in the exponential explosion of accumulation; and in a society which preaches acquisition as the hallmark of success, the reversal of that idea — of subtraction — is anathema […] Read More …

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: When and Whether

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When one should file a Federal Disability Retirement application, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under FERS or CSRS, through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is a matter of individual circumstances and needs — except in the particular situation […] Read More …

Medical Disability Retirement under FERS: Continuing Working with the Medical Condition

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The capacity to endure an ongoing medical condition is a testament to the human body and spirit. That being said, however, there is a saturation point at which the Federal or Postal […] Read More …