Last Updated on August 14, 2014 by FERS Disability Attorney
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.
But the other force which powers its way in an insidious and countermanding manner, is the very negation of lessons learned: of finding security in habitual and repetitive behavior; of responding in a known manner, because past actions of an established quality provide a zone of comfort in contrast to an unknown future. But medical conditions in and of themselves are unknown factors which impede, intrude, and interrupt. Sometimes, not acting is as deleterious as proceeding against life’s lessons, learned or yet unachieved.
For Federal and Postal employees who suffer from a medical condition, such that the medical condition not only impacts one’s ability and capacity to perform all of the essential elements of one’s positional duties but, beyond that, has already impacted the extent of experiential encounters with one’s agency, supervisor, coworkers, etc., it may be that one must reconstitute and consider changes which may be anathema to one’s very nature: patience for long-term treatment may not work, as one’s agency may be impatient; self-control towards the ingratitude manifested may not be enough; and imprudent behavior engaged in by one’s agency may be an acceptable norm of standards to follow.
Federal Disability Retirement benefits are meant to allow for the Federal and Postal employee to attain a level of livelihood in order to attend to the most important of life’s experiential encounters: one’s health.
While filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, whether one is under FERS or CSRS, may feel like one is “giving up” instead of forging forward despite adversity; the reality of it is that filing for OPM Disability Retirement does not constitute defeat or surrender, but rather an affirmative move to change the stage of the battlefield. Further, in life, it is not always the “good guy” that wins. Sometimes, the guy in the white hat must walk away, only to see another day to engage the greater battle of life.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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After being forced out of the Department of the Navy WITHOUT ANY BENEFITS a DFAS-HR Specialist added to my nightmare by insisting that she could find no record that I had ever worked for the Department of the Navy. Yet is this DFAS HR Specialist had reviewed the records she would have been able to verify that I had been a Department of the Navy employee-but had also been denied the GUARANTEED PROTECTION OF DFAS which guarantees that any individual-federal and/ or private who contributed to the DFAS Committee is GUARANTEED PROTECTION FROM REPRISAL AND / OR RETALIATION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL CAREER.
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