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OPM Disability Retirement Benefits: Keeping

Posted onMay 22, 2017January 27, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Keeps; keeping; kept; the endurance of retention reflects the vitality of human obstinacy. To retain, to own, to possess; in the present tense, present simple passive, present perfect passive, past perfect passive, present modal, past modal, and a dozen other forms of grammatical conundrums. It is the action of owning, maintaining or possessing; often, with implications of forceful protectiveness despite demands of rightful ownership by third parties. “He kept it!” “He keeps coming back!” […] Read More …

OPM Medical Separation & Retirement: Of self-expression in society

Posted onApril 20, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There exists a proportionate correlation if charted on a graph, between the rise of a need for greater self-expression and the alienation from the individual from a sense of belonging and community. The human animal has an inner need for acceptance and comity within the context of societal cohesion, and this is no different from other species and their behavioral patterns, excepting the “lone wolf” characteristics where mating or predatory consummation represents the only points of contact. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Posted onAugust 18, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The 1956 version of the film (the only one worth watching) was in black & white, and created a sensation among French Existentialists for the greatest horror committed upon a human being: to strip one of all human emotion, and transform the person into a robotic automaton of sorts. Camus’ novel, The Stranger, reveals a similar theme through the titular character, Meursault, where the absurdity of life, the indifference of humanity, all serve to compel him to commit a murder without reason or rationale, in a universe without emotion — until the very end when, faced with the certainty of the guillotine, […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Bringing in the HazMat Team

Posted onAugust 3, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The surreal scene makes for eerie production spots for Science Fiction movies and end-of-world stories of apocalyptic tales — of men in white suits and bubble masks with breathing apparatus combing the countryside. But it is merely a spillage of hazardous material, and a team of men and women who specialize in cleaning the toxic chemicals was called in to manage, contain and clean. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer: At What Cost?

Posted onApril 16, 2015November 5, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The introduction of the “cost-benefit analysis” (CBA) by the French (who else?) is a quantitative approach in determining whether to go forward with a given project. There are other approaches, of course, but the popularity of such a utilitarian paradigm is especially attractive to Americans, precisely because it allegedly places a determinable value upon the project, endeavor or issue in question. […] Read More …

Postal & Federal Disability Retirement Attorney: VERAs

Posted onMarch 30, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

With spring comes the rumors of love, furtive dalliances, clandestine consummation and intrepid interludes; as well as the potential for Voluntary Early Retirement Authority for Federal and Postal employees. What the latter (known under the acronym of VERA) has to do with the multiple listings of the former (rumors of love, furtive dalliances, etc.) is anyone’s guess; perhaps there is no connection at all or, more likely, the cognitive comparisons we make have to do with offers of change, adventure, and a need to evaluate the impact of all of the above upon the security of one’s future. […] Read More …