Last Updated on May 3, 2009 by FERS Disability Attorney
There are always multiple (unverified) stories of people who have filed for Federal Disability retirement benefits under FERS & CSRS, based upon what appears to be a “minor” medical condition (at least “minor” in comparison to the medical conditions which were rejected by the Office of Personnel Management per a denial letter), which was approved; yet, you filed a Federal Disability Retirement application based upon multiple major medical conditions, which was denied. Why me? Remember that “fairness” is not the criteria in determining the viability of a disability retirement application. Comparisons of medical conditions with other applicants or co-workers rarely provide any fruitful insight; the point is, the “other guy” got his disability retirement application approved, and you did not. It may be several factors beyond your control: Your Supervisor tried to “get back at you” by declaring that all reasonable accommodations were provided; the OPM representative which was assigned to your case was overworked and wanted to clear some of the workload, and yours was one of them; one of your doctors made statements which came perilously close to making your case one of “situational disability”. Whatever the reasons, you should not worry about factors beyond your control; instead you need to focus upon those factors over which you do have control: You need to have a strategy on how you will counter the initial denial.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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