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Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Moments of clarity

Posted onNovember 22, 2017March 23, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are those moments, aren’t there? It may come as a flash, in the middle of the night, while walking quietly in the woods (or in one’s back yard, pretending that it is in the middle of somewhere’s nowhere, despite the loud humming of lawn mowers and air blowers whoosh-whooshing in the distant yonder over the fence beyond); and it need not be because of some eureka moment or because of problems faced and meditated upon. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Reversal of Fortune

Posted onApril 18, 2015July 28, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Life itself rarely reflects a steady, linear progression on a graph; the zig-zagging representing times of economic turmoil more accurately profiles a person’s span of existence. Moreover, one’s career is not necessarily the essence or paradigm of a given life’s experience; there are multiple factors, including emotional, births and deaths, marriages and medical conditions. How does one quantify an experience? […] Read More …

OPM Federal Employee Disability Retirement: The Horizon of the “Other”

Posted onMarch 9, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The horizon is that demarcation between earth and the heavens; in days of yore, it was the navigational calculus extracted from the curvature of the visible sea in determining distance, time, and the impending cliff over which the ship’s captain would fathom monsters of devouring delights. It is where appearance emerges. What is shown; what becomes visible to the naked eye; that which is unconcealed and revealed; what the “other” allows for, and manifests, is the horizon of personhood. For some, the superficiality of one’s persona becomes evident quickly […] Read More …

The Self-Image of a Postal or Federal Employee after a Disabling Injury or Other Medical Condition

Posted onNovember 13, 2014May 4, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney5 Comments

Thurber’s Walter Mitty is not an anomaly; each of us carries a fiction within our insular souls, of lives extended into a world of fantasy, trespassing between daydreams and thoughts of heroic deeds beyond the mundane routines of daily living. Perhaps there are those in the world whose lives are so adventure-filled that such retinues of alternative parallelism […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Making the Legal Argument

Posted onNovember 10, 2014January 1, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

Legal arguments are merely a subset of ordinary ones; as variations of the facetious quip goes, if the facts are not on the lawyer’s side, then he will argue the law; if the law is not, he will argue the facts; if neither, then he will attempt to confound and obfuscate both. […] Read More …

Delaying the Filing of Your OPM Disability Retirement Application

Posted onOctober 22, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Delay temporarily suspends for a time in the future; sometimes, at the cost of immediacy of pain, but the human capacity to ignore and obfuscate allows for procrastination to be an acceptable act of non-action. But certain issues defy the control of delay; medical conditions tend to remind us of that, where attempted suspension of dealing with the pain, the progressively debilitating triggers, or the panic attacks which paralyze; they shake us to the core and pursue a relentless path which betrays procrastination. […] Read More …

The Sequence of Steps during Federal Disability Retirement Filing

Posted onOctober 21, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

Confusion often results in a meandering of purposes; on a graph, it is rarely the linear focus of a clear start point with an end goal; instead, the zig-zagging effect of wasted energies manifests a lack of insight into the procedural methodologies which should be followed in any endeavor. Just as a broken clock can be correct in telling time twice in a 24-hour period, so an endeavor engaged can sometimes result in an effective product, but one should never rely upon the statistical chance that success will result from confusion. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Reconsiderations & Additional Medical Information

Posted onOctober 18, 2014January 23, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The denial comes in the mail; it is a further delay, a negation of prior efforts; for many, it undermines and constitutes a condemnation of sorts, and a refusal of an affirmation sought in places and from people where none is offered. […] Read More …

The Federal Employee’s Confused Sense of Identity

Posted onOctober 17, 2014June 9, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

It is through ascription from third parties, over extended time periods, where the development of self-identity takes root, through subtle, incremental ways, until one day, unnoticed, without fanfare and unheralded, it becomes a known quantity of acceptance within one’s social circles, professional associations and the greater macrocosmic world we encounter. The day or the time can never be pinpointed; […] Read More …

The Law of Salvage and Federal Disability Retirement Compensation

Posted onOctober 16, 2014June 22, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The concept is derived from maritime law, where recovery of ship or cargo at sea left to abandonment and forfeiture should be duly compensated of a value commensurate with the worth of the property salvaged. The ocean is a perilous expanse, fraught with dangers encompassing weather, treacherous beneath-the-surface terrain, and potential piracy; and it is within this context of the magnitude of dangers to be faced, that the equitable principles of maritime law are applied. And isn’t that what one must do in most phases and contexts of life? […] Read More …