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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 …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: Those rare, insightful moments

Posted onApril 3, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Must it always reach the level of an epiphany, or may it be as a passing point of fluctuating comprehension? Every now and then, it is like the proverbial entrance into a clearing amidst the darkness of a looming forest; of a light that shines into a chasm heretofore undiscovered; and in that flash of understanding, it is important to grasp it, to tackle the concept, to concretize and declare, lest it slip silently away like the silken tail of a snake slithering into the tall grass. […] 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 …

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 …