how does disability retirement works under fers and csrs laws

OPM Medical Disability Retirement: The complexity of 2

Posted onJuly 19, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is the solo flight that presents the escape of simplicity; inclusion of another, and suddenly the complexity of responsibility, duty, obligation and sense of “ought” becomes a part of the entire equation. At first, it may be love born upon an equal plane; any sense of disproportionality is easily ignored, quickly deflected and unselfconsciously dispensed with; but over time, the complexity of 2 begins to creep in. It is neither insidious nor inherently negative by artifice; […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: Remorseless solitude

Posted onMay 17, 2017December 23, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

How often is there a cry to be “left alone”? By how many people, in what quantifiable slice of life and order of living despite obligations and responsibilities that may be abandoned, do we embrace those periods of remorseless solitude? […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The numerical veil

Posted onJune 9, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Statistical constructs indicate group shifts and movements; numbers, based upon controlled samplings, provide the substantive fodder for analysis of trends and patterns of population deviancies. There is, however, the question of the incommensurate nature between mathematical paradigms and linguistic application; stated more simply, Do numbers hide more than reveal, and can anything be extrapolated from them and interpreted in terms we can understand and comprehend? To a winner of the lottery, the numerical phantasm “one in a billion” […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: When we used to speak of meaningful things

Posted onMay 31, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Perhaps the negation of ideas trickles down, just as water from a crack in the roof tiles; of Derrida, Foucault and the deconstruction movement after the lengthy period of disillusionment represented by the French Existentialists headed by Camus and Sartre; for, if meaning constitutes parity and the loss of hierarchies and paradigms in crumbling corners of inconvenient truths, then Orwell’s prediction of how totalitarianism will infect society with the tools of our own making, will come about sooner than we thought possible. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Explanation & Intelligibility

Posted onJanuary 17, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The goal of an explanation is to achieve greater intelligibility; otherwise, if the latter is not achieved, the former loses its purpose. If the explanation fails to provide a basis for the goal, it would then undermine its own rational foundation. Law often loses sight of this simple principle, and feeds upon itself to justify the complexity of its own existence. But if the purpose of the legal field is to maintain a civilized society and to simplify the conundrum of life’s entanglements, then much of law fails to achieve its justifying existence. […]

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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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