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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 …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The changing straw

Posted onOctober 30, 2017May 28, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The “straw that broke the camel’s back” is a known idiom that essentially reveals to us the last in the series of incidents or actions that cumulatively result in the destruction of the whole. What in the series preceding the last straw; of what weight and import; to what significance may be attributable, we rarely focus upon; it is the last one in the series that we focus our attention upon, precisely because we assume that it is the causal connection to the event that conclusively occurs with a finality of actions. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Just another bystander

Posted onOctober 12, 2017November 9, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are primary characters, ancillary or peripheral personalities – and just another bystander. Similarly, in personal relationships taken from a subjective “I” viewpoint, there are “close family members” (i.e., normally identified as the core within a nuclear family), “extended family”, […] Read More …

Federal Medical Retirement under FERS: Does reading alter?

Posted onAugust 12, 2017July 1, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Of course, we teach our kids to believe that it does, thinking that education is the all-important focus for future endeavors and successful careers. And yet, the statistical studies show a consistency of denial – after schooling, whether of high school, college or beyond, the majority of individuals stop reading, unless you include road signs, […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Affirmation, Affiliation and Affectation

Posted onMarch 8, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

But for the middle syllable (the extra “ta” in the word), it is what people strive for; and like the thief in the night who leaves behind earthen footprints of his twilight misdeeds, the insertion of that additional combination of a consonant and vowel turns the meaning of the word upon its head, and leaves us with an artificial prose devoid of poetry and warmth. The middle term is a favorite of sociologists and other “soft” sciences where anthropological studies […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Time Travel

Posted onMarch 2, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

H.G. Wells touched upon our imaginations in 1895 with his novel, The Time Machine, and ever since, the concept itself has been accepted within the cultural milieu of ideas incandescent. Mathematicians find it as a challenge to decipher; astronomy, an idea to ponder; astrophysicists, a vehicle to revitalize the despair of incomprehension; but for poets and prophets, it is the fodder for creativity and imaginations to become unfettered by want of belief. What child (or adult) does not ponder the mysteries of the universe by means of a device to enter a future yet unknown or a past replete with narrated stories of pirates, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Skewed Perspectives

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Static constancy is never a certainty; even those things which we would bet our lives upon, change with the cultural winds of time. Sports phenomena we once marveled at, now considered to be “immoral” to view as entertainment, as voluntary brutality and concussions resulting therefrom reflect our relative lack of empathy and humanity; the ravages of time and the images of heroes in old age who totter between dementia and decrepit shadows of a hollow former self; […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement Lawyer: Figures Larger than Life

Posted onJune 16, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Once, mythological figures and characters looming larger than life itself wandered amidst the common populace of everyday working folks; their very presence bestowed a greater sense of purpose, of a pride in knowing that better days lay ahead, and that even in the upheavals of tempestuous travails and turmoils which interrupted every economy and fiefdom because of the inevitable vicissitudes of economic activity, that somehow we would all survive through the common efforts of community. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: The Biography of T. Chemelwoot

Posted onDecember 3, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney5 Comments

He was a person who “gave his all” each day as he quietly and competently performed his duties. The accolades came slowly, but consistently, and with laudatory praises over the years; with cash incentives and awards, and performance ratings where negative criticisms were dotted as mere formalities because the belief that perfection is impossible to achieve is mandated more by modesty than by reality of circumstances. Never one to talk too much about one’s personal life, the photographs of his wife and children declared the stability of his personal bubble, and reflected who he was and where he was going. […]

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OPM Disability Retirement: Last Minute Filing

Posted onOctober 29, 2009AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Too often, I receive calls from Federal and Postal employees (or rather, formerly thereof) who have waited until the very last conceivable moment to file for Federal Disability Retirement […] Read More …