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OPM Disability Retirement: The Walking Anomaly

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The identity of a person is represented by a composite of memories held, present activities engaged, and future endeavors planned, thus bringing into a complex presence the times of past, present and anticipated future. It is because of this walking anomaly — of not just an entity living in the present, but of someone who possesses the retentive capacity of memories past, and plans made and being generated for future actions — that the complexity of the human condition can never be […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Wotan’s Spear

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It is the spear engraved with runic laws, captured in Wagner’s opera cycle, and Norse legend has it that it never misses its mark regardless of the ability of the wielder. In health, that is how many feel, and come to believe. In ill-health, or declining and deteriorating health, one’s mortality, susceptibility, and vulnerability come into question; […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Once upon a Time…

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Once upon a time, there were great “causes” for which people fought to live for; evil empires which desired domination and for which the world went to war; liberties denied and suppressed, resulting in meaningful mass protests; and in the microcosm of individual lives, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Daylight Savings and First Light of Dawn

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No matter our technological prowess, the attempt to distance ourselves from biological determinism fails at its most basic elements: by most accounts, the simple change of moving the clock forward (or backward, when once Fall comes again) completely disrupts […] Read More …

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

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The principle of abundance implicates progressive and unending addition, resulting in the exponential explosion of accumulation; and in a society which preaches acquisition as the hallmark of success, the reversal of that idea — of subtraction — is anathema […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Pilot

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It is actually a misnomer to connect the terms “automatic” and “pilot” , precisely because the former term completely and unilaterally undermines the latter. Think about it: the entire concept […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: The MSPB

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The Merit Systems Protection Board (better known by its acronym, the “MSPB”) is the third stage of the administrative process in attempting to obtain Federal Disability Retirement […] Read More …