good preparation from the beginning helps to increase the possibility that your fers disability retirement application is approved in the first stage

OPM Disability Retirement: The Three Little Pigs

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We are all familiar with the fable of the anthropomorphic three little pigs and the materials used in building their respective houses. The point of the story itself, however, concerns not the elements used, but the craftsmanship employed, and the effort expended, which reveals the underlying values and provides for fertile fodder in teaching the importance of hard work, careful application and sufficient preparatory labor in securing one’s future. […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Insipience

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The thread of differentiation and conceptual distinction can be based upon a mere sliver. In practical life, pausing a moment because a person forgot his or her keys, can result in avoiding a chain of events terminating in causal calamities, merely because the time differentiation as a consequence of the slight delay allows for time to alter the historical ripples of cause and effect. […] Read More …

Misnomers and the OPM’s Disability, Reconsideration & Appeals Division

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The problem with misnomers is not just the inaccuracy of designation which is either explicitly or implicitly conveyed, but the unintended consequences of the string of reactions and responses which can occur as a result thereof. Sometimes, interpretive mistakes occur purely on a subjective basis; in which case it is not truly a case of a misnomer, but rather merely the misunderstanding by the recipient of the information. Other times, a word or designation can be open to multiple meanings, […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Orchestration

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The quality of a piece of music is defined by sound and silence. It is the former which is focused upon by most individuals; it is the importance of the latter which is ignored, precisely because the negation of X is never recognized as X until and unless its existence is suddenly lacking. Silence — that momentary pause which allows for sound to pass by in waves of sonorous […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Preparation

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Observing competence in action often results in the disarming effect that all endeavors are easy and effortless, and that the price to be paid, the admission fee for fame, is merely based upon luck, whom you are associated with, or what school you attended. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: A Bridge Too Far

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It is an indelible comment in history, marking a failure of calculations resulting in catastrophic consequences in the unwise attempt to quickly end the war. As a tactical consideration, the attempt to outflank German defenses by securing key bridges in order to isolate […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Erasers

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Erasers have been replaced by the ‘delete’ button; that concept alone is a peculiarity: of the mechanism used to expunge is itself made obsolete and disappears. It is a tribute to the human imagination that we can project scenarios in which individuals, including […] Read More …

Early Medical Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: Those Important First Steps

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It is often the period of initial preparation of a process which is important in setting a solid foundation for the insurmountable security and solidity of a case. That truism is arrived at through retrospective reflection; but when one is frantically attempting to reach the end-goal, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: The Backbone of Agencies

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While the greater geopolitical standoffs continue, it is always the backbone of the agencies which is most profoundly impacted. The Federal and Postal Workers (yes, fortunately the latter are exempted from the shutdown) who daily toil and keep government services […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Preparatory Steps

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Every excellent endeavor requires preparation, whether in purchasing the proper ingredients, of establishing and entering into a proper mental state of mind, or perhaps in performing preliminary stretching exercises to enhance muscular flexibility and loosening for […] Read More …