reflections on how that job related injury will affect your federal career

OPM Disability Retirement: Confirmation of Worth

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Diamonds demand it and markets survive by it; investments grow or shrink according to assessed worth, and relationships are maintained by the relative perspective of individuals entangled. Worth, or the value of a thing, is determined in a capitalist society as a result of increase in demand, and scarcity of supply. But what of the worth of an individual, as opposed to an inanimate object? Do we treat it in the same manner? Should it be? […]

 
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OPM FERS Disability Retirement: The Limitation of Imagination

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The imposition of one’s cultural nurturing, combined with the genetic determinism of one’s heritage, makes us who we are, and presents to the world the essence of each unique personality. One likes to think of the infinite and limitless potentiality of each individual […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: August, Vacations, & OPM

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August is traditionally a time of vacations; a period of respite, before the onset of school and the busy schedules of parents. Government offices slow down, and with the coinciding impact of furloughs mandated through automatic imposition, delays in work and […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Heidegger, Being, Essence and Value

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Heidegger represents a culmination of sorts — of a philosopher caught in the historicity of his own time and making (with allegations of collaborating with the Nazi party), while proposing a […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: A New Beginning, after an Old Ending

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Whether it is old age which makes for intransigence, or whether it is a lifetime of habitual living which makes for difficulty in changing the course of one’s future, will never be completely […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Happy New Year

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For many people, celebrating the “New Year” often encapsulates a parallel time of reflection, of resolutions for change and improvement, etc. For Federal and Postal employees […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Health

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As we begin preparing for the upcoming Thanksgiving Holidays, then into Christmas & New Year’s, it is well to pause and consider those things which we often take for granted, […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits for Federal & Postal Employees: Changes & Transition

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Change is a necessary part of life; indeed, this is a time of change for many, as schools end, young men and women graduate from college; people often get married in the months […] Read More …

Federal and Postal Service Disability Retirement: Psychiatric Disabilities & the Holidays

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Christmas, New Years & the Holidays; psychiatric disabilities of Major Depression, Anxiety, panic attacks, and many others; the mixture of the two often create an admixture of […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Return from Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving was a time of quiet reflection; of family, friends and faith; of taking a slice of quietude and having conversations, about the past, present; and somewhat about the future. […] Read More …