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Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Conceptual Relationships

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Word associations are revealing. When once a word is uttered, the immediate association of another concept provides a prelude to the cognitive perspective of an individual. Conceptual relationships are forged through upbringing, personal experiences, and memories fulfilled through impact, trauma, significance of meaning, and attribution of value. The thinking “I” within the subjective realm of a personal universe, is made up of ghosts of the past, goblins of present fears, and gadflies yet to swarm. […]

 
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Disability Retirement from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Concurrent Actions

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Idioms often convey an underlying truth recognized and identified by a specific culture or population; they are statements from an experiential aggregation of similitude, based upon a shared set of values. The phrase, “When it rains, it pours”, is easily a recognizable idiom; that when things go wrong, multiple wrong things tend to occur altogether, all at once. […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: Multiple Tracks

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Multi-tasking is a relatively modern term, but the substance of which people have obviously been engaging in for centuries. With the limitations imposed by the human anatomy, as well as the capacity […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Proof

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This is a proof-based process. It is not merely a matter of completing some forms and meeting procedural guidelines in order to obtain a benefit; rather, it is an administrative process […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Revealing Sensitive Medical Information

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In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, there is often the expressed […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Pain, Anxiety & Exacerbation

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Medical conditions tend to “feed upon” one another. Maintaining a balanced perspective on anything is difficult when one is in pain, and the nagging, incessant presence of pain, diffuse and […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Illness v. Disability

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Everyone has experienced an illness which results in a temporary period of disability; there is, however, a vast difference between such an illness, and a medical condition […] Read More …

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Thoughtless Agency Actions

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The term, “oxymoron” comes from the Greek, meaning “sharp dull” — a phrase or concept which embraces two or more contradictory terms. When was the last time that the combination […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: A Word about Approvals

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It is the general policy of the Office of Personnel Management to withhold releasing of information concerning a pending Federal Disability Retirement application, whether under FERS […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Don’t Overstate the Case

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It is important to have an objective tone in one’s Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS. This is inherently difficult, of course, if one is representing […] Read More …