usps health insurance after disability retirement as part of a postal employee benefit

Attorney Representation Federal Disability Retirement: Struggles

Posted onDecember 1, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is a law of life, is it not? To struggle; to always have to thrash about just to survive, whether in the world of employment, the world of self-control, the universe of just maintaining a semblance of sanity within a greater complex of madness we face each day? And, indeed, that is the basis of most philosophical systems that have been posited – from the Ancients who posited permanence as opposed to constant flux […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Writing another’s life

Posted onAugust 5, 2016March 22, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is all well and good to write the narrative of one’s life, and to live it in accordance with the prose and poetry (or lack thereof) which we embrace; but to write another’s life — it makes one pause, hesitate and move with trepidation. For, we ask ourselves: Of what right do we have? Is that best for the other person? We make such a mess of our own lives; what burden of responsibility must we undertake in order to shoulder the writing of another’s life? But that is precisely what we do when we have children, isn’t it? […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal & Postal Employment: The Scraps of Life

Posted onAugust 4, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

But that primary utility and first considerations were always so; if we were inanimate objects able to compete, we would raise our hands and volunteer for the front of the line just to be recognized and implemented. We whine and complain that the dignity and the essence of each soul should be treated not merely as an end, but a means, and thereby treated with respect and empathy. But of our actions; how we respond; what we are willing to surrender in order to be used as mere fodder for the foul play of fantasies left as scrap heaps of history? Are we useful? Of what good are we? Do we make a difference? […] Read More …

OPM Disability Benefits: The Eyes Which Betray the Laughter

Posted onFebruary 19, 2015September 27, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney4 Comments

Plato noted the significance of the eyes; as windows of the soul, they reveal the depth of emotion, character, empathy, interest, boredom, meanness, etc.; and just as true, the lack thereof. Laughter provides the concordance of mirth to context; cacophony occurs when the harmony between the two somehow fails to connect. The pinnacle of sadness is represented when one looks upon an individual, hears the laughter, and sees the revelatory sadness deep within the eyes of the soul. […] Read More …