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Patience During the FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement Process
It is now post-Labor Day Weekend. Summer is essentially over. The Office of Personnel Management will be back in “full force”. The inclination will be to call up OPM and impatiently — imprudently —...
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CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Attorney Representation
I am still often asked about whether or not, or how helpful, legal representation would be in a Federal or Postal Disability Retirement case. To ask an attorney such a question is often unhelpful, for...
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CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The OWCP Paradigm
One may choose OWCP benefits because, financially, it pays more (75% non-taxed for an individual with dependents; 66 2/3% for a single individual) than a Federal Disability Retirement annuity. It is a...
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CSRS & FERS Disability Disability Retirement: OWCP & the Postal Service
For many years, being on Worker’s Comp when injured while working for the Postal Service, worked fairly well. The Postal Service, in conjunction with, and in coordination, would offer an acceptable...
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CSRS & FERS Disability Disability Retirement: The "Process"
In my last writing, I briefly discussed why filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits is, and must be looked upon as, a “process” as opposed to a mere “filing” with an expectation of an...
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Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The Repetitive Reminder
Remember that a FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement application must be filed within one (1) year of being separated from Federal Service. For some odd reason, there is still some prevailing...
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Federal Disability Retirement: Preparations
In a perfect world, each of us would make preparations to confront, engage in, and lay the foundations necessary for dealing in life’s eventualities, whether such events constitute emergencies,...
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Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Gaps & Chasms
For those following the blogs of the undersigned attorney, some may have noticed a slight gap between the last time one was posted, and the present one; one may attribute the gap of time to one of the...
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The Law of Salvage and Federal Disability Retirement Compensation
The concept is derived from maritime law, where recovery of ship or cargo at sea left to abandonment and forfeiture should be duly compensated of a value commensurate with the worth of the property...
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Federal Disability Retirement: The Identity Crisis
It is through ascription from third parties, over extended time periods, where the development of self-identity takes root, through subtle, incremental ways, until one day, unnoticed, without fanfare...
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Federal Disability Retirement: The Statement, the Stranger and the How
Paper presentations are dangerous creatures; if read by a stranger, it lacks the context of familiarity, and therefore must include enough information and detail to lay the preparatory foundation for...
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FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Making the Legal Argument
Legal arguments are merely a subset of ordinary ones; as variations of the facetious quip goes, if the facts are not on the lawyer’s side, then he will argue the law; if the law is not, he will argue...
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Medical Retirement from the USPS and Other Government Agencies: Construction
Meaning and value are attached to building, and watching the construction of end-products resulting from an assembly-line of incremental, almost imperceptible progression of composite aggregations of...
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The Self-Image of a Postal or Federal Employee after a Disabling Injury or...
Thurber’s Walter Mitty is not an anomaly; each of us carries a fiction within our insular souls, of lives extended into a world of fantasy, trespassing between daydreams and thoughts of heroic deeds...
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Federal Disability Retirement: Comparative Living
We all engage in it; it is the genre of modernity by which one values and estimates. With the shrinking world through sharing of information in this technological age, the greater minds have proposed...
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OPM Medical Retirement Laws: Confirmation and Affirmation
The former is both a religious sacrament in Church doctrine, as well as a state of establishing that something is true or correct; the latter, an act or statement of support for that which was...
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FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Systemic Problems
When the residual impact of a crisis goes well beyond cosmetic concerns, the usual and customary description is that the “cause” involves “systemic” problems. Such foundational fissures can occur both...
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OPM Medical Retirement: Predictable Pantomimes
Most of life is simply lived. One engages, works, plans, deliberates, initiates, completes chores, gets up in the morning, goes to bed at night, etc. Little reflection or thought is required; much of...
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OPM Disability Retirement: Requisite Sense of Control
Most of us require a semblance of self-determination, if only to conceal the inadequacies and keep at bay the disasters which portend, or pretend, whichever the case may be. By controlling...
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Federal Disability Retirement: The Alliteration of Life
Cathartic calamities caused creatively cannot cooperatively contain characteristic contents clearly coordinated contumaciously. Sometimes, the insistence upon form can result in the nonsensical loss...
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