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OPM Disability Retirement for Federal & Postal Employees: Alone

Posted onMarch 4, 2017September 20, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We enter into this impervious universe in such a state. Yes, yes – there are parents surrounding, love embracing and doctors, nurses and hospital attendants with smiling faces and all of that; but being alone is conceptually distinct from loneliness, and one can be surrounded by a multitude of social acquaintances, family members and close and distant relatives, and still bear the weight of the latter, and yet know throughout that one is nevertheless alone in this world. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement Application: The tumescent narrative

Posted onFebruary 16, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The pendulum between a swollen ego and a timid conscience can be wide and vast; or of the difference between panicked shyness amounting to a hermit’s refuge, and arrogance in man that betrays the smallness of one’s heart. Being “puffed up” is one thing; demanding one’s rights without persuasive argumentation, quite another. In formulating one’s “story” in preparing an effective Federal Disability Retirement application, specifically on SF 3112A, Applicant’s Statement of Disability, the undersigned lawyer has seen […] Read More …

Civil Service Disability Retirement Benefits: Human activity

Posted onFebruary 15, 2017October 1, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The dizzying pace of it all defies comprehension. We are, indeed, busy-bees, always engaged in this project, that protest, intervening in the affairs of others when our own are in such a state of disarray; up at it early in the morning and continuing until exhaustion sets in or wayward dementia in old age where even nursing homes impose human activity every night – bingo, dance, meditation, Tai Chi, family visitation day; not even a break for the aged. […] Read More …

Civil Service Disability Retirement: The value of properly preparing

Posted onFebruary 7, 2017August 17, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Each and every stage of a Federal Disability Retirement process is important to view in the preparation of a Federal Disability Retirement application. You cannot take any stage of the process in a vacuum; for example, answering SF 3112A, Applicant’s Statement of Disability, in and of itself forces one to consider stages beyond the Initial Stage of the process. Questions to ask: Are you bound by your answers without the possibility of further amendments to the narrative delineation you submit? Can changes, amendments, additions be made even after a CSA/Case number is assigned by Boyers, Pennsylvania […] Read More …