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Experiential Responses: Medical Retirement for Postal & Civilian Federal Employees

Posted onAugust 14, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Life’s garbage is supposed to teach us lessons; that is what we are taught from a young age. Thus, long lines allow for an opportunity to test patience; insults and ingratitudes, self control; imprudent behavior, an antipathy towards it; lengthy battles, allowing a lesson to forge on while others give up; and similar encounters which provide ample revelations for altering one’s natural instinct of regressive responses. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: ICM versus ICBM

Posted onJune 12, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

During the Cold War era, the latter acronym was familiar to most, as fears were magnified as to the intercontinental capacity of the U.S.S.R. (those who can still decipher this immediately reveals one’s age). In those days, one did not need to know the Eastern […] Read More …

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

Posted onApril 7, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

One often hears about the fragile ecosystem of which we are a part. We speak of such natural orders as if they are somehow separate and distinct from our own existence, and indeed, because we create insular communities and artificial oases of cocoon-like […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Those Welcome Distractions

Posted onFebruary 18, 2014March 31, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Filing for a Federal Disability Retirement through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is a step which admits of a stark reality: One’s medical condition has come to a point of irreversible deterioration, such that the impact upon one’s ability to continue […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The Tenuous Thread of Life

Posted onDecember 11, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

In this, our desensitized, sanitized life; in a world of virtual reality and technological complexity, the modern man has little empathy for the tenuous thread of life. We are conditioned and trained more to cry over a movie scene than the tragedy which befalls a real entity. […] Read More …

USPS Postal and Federal Gov. Disability Retirement: That False Sense of Loyalty

Posted onJuly 20, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Longevity often masks itself for loyalty; yet, when an organization is so large and impersonal such that each cog in the wheel merely represents an irrelevant fraction of the larger entity, then the relative importance of the individual becomes correspondingly […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Dealing with Adversity

Posted onJuly 17, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

How does one deal with adversity? When the adversary is a faceless entity, a bureaucracy which acts as a behemoth of epic proportions, one must take care in choosing the proper battle to engage. For, ultimately, the victory or loss of a battle is often determined by […] Read More …