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Experiential Responses: Medical Retirement for Postal & Civilian Federal Employees

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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 …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: To Just Walk Away

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One suspects that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management “plays the odds” and finds that a certain percentage of the population will accept at face-value the stated basis of a denial […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: The Syndrome of, “I Can’t Understand It”

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In all aspects of life, both professional and personal, it is easy to get stuck in a rut where one cannot walk away from a particular irritant. In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: The Second Denial

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The Second Denial — a denial from the Office of Personnel Management of a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS — often fails to annotate or delineate an extensive […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Each Step is a New Review

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There are only one of several ways in which a Federal disability retirement application under FERS or CSRS can be lost: Either a Judge at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals renders a final […] Read More …