FERS Disability Retirement from the OPM: Fight On
Some view it as the only option to pursue. In history, General Patton is given as an example of one who never accepted defeat. “Fight on” is a concept embraced by many as the singular focus of...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement under FERS: The Race to Weekend
When younger, we vowed never to view it that way. Every day was one to cherish, to tackle, to energetically pursue. “Living life to the fullest”; “Seize the day — if not the hour, the moment, the...
View ArticleFederal & Postal Employee Medical Retirement: Indications
They are always there. We just either ignore them, or somehow are too obtuse to take notice. Indications. The buds appearing at the ends of branches (although, with strange weather trends, this may...
View ArticleFederal Government Employee Disability Retirement Help: Life’s Libations
Originally applied in identifying a drink poured out in honor of a deity, it became a somewhat humorous way of referring to an alcoholic beverage via an alternative way. The concept of “life’s...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement Law: The Village
On the political spectrum, conservatives scoffed at the idea (represented as a target of a book written by a hated political figure on the left); and liberals constantly embraced the idea, despite...
View ArticleFERS Disability Retirement Law: Vestigial Lives
We never like to think about our lives in those terms — of what is left of it; of being a smaller part where once there represented a larger segment. Vestigial lives — those remnants trailing behind;...
View ArticleLong Term Disabilities in Federal & Postal Employees: The Comma
Why was it invented? Just as in a verbal encounter, the pause which ensues — if only to gasp for breath by a non-stopping, constantly-talking individual (and we all know of one, or several) — allows...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement Application: Denials for the Unrepresented
Why are denial letters issued to those Federal Disability Retirement applicants different in nature from those with legal representation? Why should there be a difference in quality and content? Why,...
View ArticleFederal & Postal Employee Medical Retirement: The Mistake Unrecognized
We can always quibble about what constitutes a “mistake” — but, generally, there are circumstances described which fall into the center of the conceptual definition, those which border on the...
View ArticleHelp with Disability Retirement from Federal Agency or USPS: Fences
“Good fences make good neighbors” — a proverb we are all familiar with. It is a saying which recognizes with suspicion and realism the inherently evil nature of man in his natural state. It draws up,...
View ArticleOPM Medical Retirement under FERS: Routines
We all have them; we rely upon them; and in times of tumult and upheaval, they are what gets us through because we can endure them with thoughtless efficiency. There are the rare and few who try and...
View ArticleFERS Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Future Planning
It is perhaps a redundancy to put the two concepts together; for, “planning” is almost always about the future (can one plan for the past? Or, even for the present — as every moment of the present...
View ArticleFederal Employee Medical Disability Retirement Help: Resisting
Whether against a temptation or an innate sense that something is not quite right, the temporary delay of gratification — for, that is ultimately the result of resisting — can be of great benefit. The...
View ArticleLong-Term Disability Benefits for Federal & Postal Employees: Carelessness
In some professions, it matters not; in others, perhaps of a de minimus impact; but to many, of a great and irreversible impact. For an eye surgeon, the slightest tremor may mean the difference between...
View ArticleDisability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM): Giving...
It can be a sign of over-confidence, or merely a regret for a mistake made. Granting the “other side” — whoever it is — the ammunition to make their argument, is normally not the best strategy in any...
View ArticleMedical Retirement under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS): Money
We all groan about it (well, perhaps there does exist a 1% who never worries about it). We complain and moan. There is never enough. When an unexpected amount is received, it provides a momentary...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement Benefits: The Privacy of Weirdness
Privacy provokes weirdness; or so it would seem. Things which people would not otherwise do, they do in the apparent seclusion of privacy. It is when the “private” becomes “public” that...
View ArticleFERS Medical Retirement Legal Representation: Advice
Advice is always a sensitive issue; when we sincerely seek it, it can be of extraordinary value; but when it comes out way without solicitation, the burden of doing something we wish to ignore or cast...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement Law: The Compelling Reason
We have come to interpret such a concept as one which must rise above the mundane. A “reason”, in isolation, is simply not enough; instead, it must be “compelling” — that break between a pause and a...
View ArticleFederal Employees Retirement System (FERS) disability retirement: Crepuscular...
It is that borderline of light, at the twilight of a day’s end; at the edges, the point where you can view the nighttime movement of bats and other creatures out to devour insects just emerging as the...
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