Federal Disability Retirement and the Agency Cover of “Accommodation”
I am receiving too many phone calls from people who have been fooled by his/her Agency that they have been “accommodated”, and therefore they cannot file for disability retirement. From Federal Workers...
View ArticleFederal OPM Disability Retirement: The Simplicity of the Complex
It is not the forms which make it complex — although, the instructions which accompany the filling out of the Standard Forms make it appear more convoluted than necessary. Federal Disability Retirement...
View ArticleFERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The Complexity of the Simple
Federal disability retirement law, the statutes and regulations which govern eligibility; the multiple case-law opinions from Administrative Judges and Federal Circuit Judges interpreting the governing...
View ArticleCSRS & 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...
View ArticleFederal Employee Medical Retirement: The Key to a Case
Often, when dignitaries or celebrities visit a particular city, they are recognized, applauded and sometimes “given the keys” to a city — metaphorically meaning that they are provided with certain...
View ArticlePostal and Federal Disability Retirement: A Sudden Awareness
One often muddles through life, so long as nothing extraordinary occurs. A medical condition may begin to impact the Federal or Postal employee, perhaps in a peripheral, non-threatening manner, at...
View ArticleFERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and Postal Workers: Intended...
That which is intended can be different from what is stated; but from the reader’s point of view, one can only decipher from the statement given, with any inferences to be logically implied, through...
View ArticleOPM Accepted Medical Conditions
The problem with “lists” is that, the moment one realizes that one is not on the list, the tendency is to simply give up and go home. But lists are rarely exhaustive; rather, most are merely to...
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