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Postal and Federal Medical Retirement: The Concealment of Emoticons

Posted onNovember 18, 2014March 9, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

They replace the true face of humanity. Pasted with a quick tap of a computer keyboard, they allegedly represent the state of emotional being of a person, at a given time, within a granted context, in the course of an interplay accomplished in diatribes of virtual reality. Contrast such antiseptic encounters with the profound agony felt in Anton Chekhov’s short story, “Grief” (or sometimes otherwise entitled, “Misery”), and one begins to comprehend the depths of distancing depravity that people have fallen to in an attempt to bifurcate humanity from personal contact. […]

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FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Making the Legal Argument

Posted onNovember 10, 2014January 1, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

Legal arguments are merely a subset of ordinary ones; as variations of the facetious quip goes, if the facts are not on the lawyer’s side, then he will argue the law; if the law is not, he will argue the facts; if neither, then he will attempt to confound and obfuscate both. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Reconsiderations & Additional Medical Information

Posted onOctober 18, 2014January 23, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The denial comes in the mail; it is a further delay, a negation of prior efforts; for many, it undermines and constitutes a condemnation of sorts, and a refusal of an affirmation sought in places and from people where none is offered. […] Read More …

The Effective Use of Language in the Federal Disability Retirement Application

Posted onOctober 13, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

As a paper presentation to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal Disability Retirement must by necessity be based upon the effective use of language. Language — that all-encompassing compendium of vocabulary, grammar, word-choice, topical selection, verbs, descriptive ascriptions, use of nouns and action verbs, etc. — is the vehicle of requirement, all within the constraints of providing validating evidentiary proof in preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application; and it must be delineated within the purview of factual validation and guided by truth within […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Ontological Priority

Posted onOctober 10, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

In philosophy, Ontology is a branch of metaphysics concerned with the reality of our world, of unraveling Being in its true form and nature, and the interaction of subject-to-object relationships and the order of priorities as described in the inter and intra connections between the “I” and “you” of this world. As such, it must take into account the peculiar biological make-up of human beings, their perceptual world from a subjective viewpoint, as well as the Kantian paradigm of the “noumenal” world which is “out there”. […] Read More …

The Genotype-phenotype Distinction and Disability Retirement Benefits for Federal and Postal Employees

Posted onSeptember 20, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The distinction is important in the study of genetics, where the genotype represents the entirety of one’s hereditary information contained in one’s DNA, whereas the phenotype represents the manifestation of that genetic heredity received and retained by any given individual. In simple terms, it is the inner/outer distinction, or in Aristotelian terms, the substance/accident representation, or further, in Platonic characterization, the form/appearance description of the world. […] Read More …

The Social Security Factor on the FERS Disability Retirement Claim

Posted onSeptember 18, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

For the FERS employee, whether as a Federal, non-Postal employee, or as a Postal worker, who intends to file for Federal Disability Retirements benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the administrative process of filing for Social Security Disability benefits (SSDI) is a bureaucratic involvement and, by some accounts from Human Resource Offices of various Federal agencies, […] Read More …

The “Other” Civil Service System

Posted onSeptember 17, 2014February 15, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Information concerning Federal Disability Retirement benefits will often refer to the universe of “FERS” employees (acronym for Federal Employees Retirement System, which was enacted by Congress in 1986 and became effective the following year), with little to no information concerning its replacement system, the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). […] Read More …

Hostile Work Environment in Federal Employment

Posted onSeptember 16, 2014September 23, 2023AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Perhaps it is an inevitability. When a Federal employee or a U.S. Postal worker suffers from a medical condition, such that the medical condition begins to impact one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, the reaction of the agency for whom he or she works (or the U.S. Postal Service), is often one of lack of supportive behaviors, to propose an understatement.

Reacting to a reactionary response, however, is not always the intelligent thing to do. When the Federal employee or the U.S. Postal Service recognizes a need to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Wait Processing Time

Posted onSeptember 15, 2014November 22, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

What is the time it takes to process an OPM Disability Retirement application? Most of it depends upon the delays naturally encountered throughout the process itself: the length of time doctors take in compiling the medical information requested; preparation and formulation of one’s Federal Disability Retirement forms, including the Statement of Disability; how long the agency Human Resource Office takes (is it through a local H.R. Office, or through a centralized district human resource office; for Postal employees, everything it submitted through the H.R. Shared Services office in Greesnboro, North Carolina); […] Read More …