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Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Sides (Part I)

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Was there a time when moral order, social propriety and conventional codes of conduct were bifurcated in such clear and identifiable demarcations, such that everyone knew the rules and roles by which to abide? Or were there always overlapping and invidious borders which constituted conditional conundrums? […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Revisiting the Concept of “Accommodations”

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“Accommodation” is a legal term of art. At least, in preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS, it is a specific term, with specific definitions, with underlying […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Federal Agencies

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Why do some Federal Agencies (and the Postal Service) act in non-supportive, negative ways, while others go out of their way to support their employees? The answer to […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Supervisors, Agencies and H.R. Personnel

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I am sometimes pleasantly surprised at Supervisors — ones who actually recognize that an individual filing for Federal Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS does so out of necessity, […] Read More …