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The Balance of Relevance during the Preparation and Filing of an OPM Disability Retirement Application

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Extraneous information is somewhat determined by the eye of the beholder; outsiders tend to view things differently from those who hold greater and more intimate knowledge through interconnected and intersecting relationships; and implied understandings, furtive glances and knowing stares, coupled with a wan smile, are often indicative of an intramural web of knowledge. Looking to move into a neighborhood, one may drive through an area and see the pristine cut of well-manicured lawns, […] Read More …

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Searching for the Proper Balance

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Herbal tinctures have become popular in recent times, as primary reliance upon pharmacological solutions characterized by the paradigm of traditional medicine has resulted in explosions of naturopathic alternatives. But the proper balance and admixture of alcohol […] Read More …

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: The Volume-based Application

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A declaration of the sheer volume of medical evidence submitted is often an indicator of the basis for which a Federal Disability Retirement application was formulated; for, in the end, if reliance of the successful outcome of a Federal Disability Retirement application […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Gargantuan Bureaucracy

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Gargantuan; Leviathan-like; Mammoth; Elephantine; such descriptive words at once describe and simultaneously belie the true nature of an entity, especially when it comes to an administrative bureaucracy at the Federal level. Agencies are organic structures, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Balance of Information

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In every submission of documentary evidence for a Federal Disability Retirement application, whether under FERS or CSRS, there is the need for discretionary decision-making. Not every piece of information is relevant or necessary; volume of attachments […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Misunderstanding Leading to Irreversible Detriment

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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, the Federal or Postal […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Selective Prosecution

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The term itself implies a sense of unfairness. But fairness often depends upon a viewpoint, and the methodology which is applied, or failed to be applied. Thus, in a Federal Disability […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: The Proper Balance

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Meeting and arriving at the “proper balance” in any endeavor is an Aristotelian concept found in his Nichomachean Ethics, of achieving a median between any two extremes. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Medical Records Alone

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Medical records can provide valuable information, and as a tool in getting a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS approved, it should be selectively submitted. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Tools to Use

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I am often asked, when filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, Will you use … ? From the range of tools of evidence to use — including VA disability ratings, to OWCP “CA” forms, […] Read More …