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Physical and Mental Conditions in Federal OPM Disability Retirement Claims: Ahead of the Proverbial Curve

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Trends are often characterized by the actions of a few.  Whether in cultural expectancies via movie moguls, fashion designers, technology innovators and convention-busters, the known so-called leaders who stay ahead of the proverbial “curve” which maintains the continuum of linear stability in a given society, often dictate the direction of an otherwise directionless future.  The ivory tower of academia is another such bastion of proclivities where, if observed carefully, […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Stress, Anxiety, Depression…

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Stress is often the noun which triggers. As the originating causation, it is often considered the evil cousin who brings about other ailments. It is a state of mental or emotional strain which is encountered under extraordinary circumstances, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Secondary Depression and Other Contingent Medical Conditions

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Often, in preparing, formulating and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS, one must selectively choose, based upon the medical reports received from one’s requested […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Stress

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“Stress” is always the “problem child” in a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS. If a Federal or Postal employee is no longer able to perform one or more of the essential elements of one’s job […] Read More …

Postal and Federal Employees Disability Retirement: Major Depression

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Federal and Postal workers who are inquiring about filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS often lack any context as to his or her own particular situation, […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Service Disability Retirement: Experience & the Medical Condition

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Often, when a client receives the finalized disability retirement packet, I receive a response that goes something like: “I didn’t realize I was so bad off, until I read through the prepared packet.” […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Spouse

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I find that when a person is filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, an important component which is often overlooked is the supportive spouse […] Read More …

Important Cases Which Impact Disability Retirement Applications

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The recent case of Vanieken-Ryals v. OPM, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, decided on November 26, 2007, cannot be overemphasized for its importance to the disability retirement process. It is, in my view, a landmark case which will greatly advance potential disability retirement applicants who base their disabilities upon psychiatric conditions. In Read More …