can I medically retire from opm with ptsd? yes but there is an eligibility criteria you must proof in the application

Federal Employee Disability: The constant struggle

Posted onNovember 20, 2017January 31, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It does appear never-ending, doesn’t it? And what of that dream – of some windfall, or perhaps the lottery pick of numbers that somehow keeps people coming back to the corner Mart and purchasing tickets despite the astronomical chances that defy the odds of probability? Why is it that people are more apt to believe in conspiracy theories that the moon landing or aliens from Mars have been concocted and coopted by some nefarious government, […] Read More …

Legal Representation on Federal Disability Retirement Claims: Then, forgotten

Posted onSeptember 9, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

To die is forgivable; to be forgotten, not so much. Perhaps that is why the 15-minute rule of one’s fame is so important to most people; that, to be “appreciated” in a life-long struggle just to remain relevant makes fools of us all, and the basis upon which con-men and scams continue to effectively play their course. It is, of course, the “then” that matters – that prelude to the state of being forgotten, that defines what a person’s life was, remains, and will continue to be in the future amongst and amidst the remainder of a family, friends and acquaintances left behind. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Separation and Retirement under FERS: The prefix of undoing

Posted onApril 4, 2016April 20, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

But that life followed grammatical rules; we would all become paradigms of perfection, transform into a species beyond reproach, and maintain a standard of living and measure of conduct unassailable by wandering eyes. If affixing the prefix of “un” upon any life experience would negate — and not just in terms of virtual reality, but in “real time” reality — the action of which we deplored, as the grammatical ascription automatically accomplishes, then there would never be regrets, no need for hesitation, and always an advancement beyond beastly thoughts of secluded corridors where innocence need not enter and naiveness should not ponder. […] Read More …

Medical Disability for Federal Employees: Waiting upon life

Posted onMarch 22, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Being “pro-active” is a feature of modernity born of necessity when survival and the basic needs for human existence are essentially met; in days of evolutionary antiquity, when Darwinism ruled the moment and the growling pangs of hunger rumbled through the darkened streets of industrial ghettos and slimy slums of toxic waste dumps where hutches made of cardboard and corrugated tin put together effortlessly in a collage of unregulated stream of consciousness as a counterrevolutionary statement of defiance against pristine lawns and ordered houses designed by the evil eye of a home owner’s association — in those days of yore, being anything “less than” meant that you perished. […] Read More …