Last Updated on May 21, 2010 by FERS Disability Attorney
By a “tailored” approach, it does not mean that it must be narrow and without flexibility. Flexibility is important in a Federal Disability Retirement Applicant’s Statement of Disability (Standard Form 3112A). For, if you tailor an Applicant’s Statement of Disability too narrowly, there are multiple unintended consequences which can occur — from being pigeonholed into a narrow disability (which can become problematic later on if you get a Medical Questionnaire for updated medical information); to being unable to provide supplemental medical documentation to prove your case because the additional medical documentation does not apply directly to an identified medical condition on the SF 3112A; to multiple other potentially problematic areas. Thus, always make the distinction between a formally diagnosed medical condition from the symptoms which may be delineated. Further, there does not have to be a 1-to-1 correspondence between diagnosis and symptom; rather, the symptomatology can interweave between the formal diagnosis and the experiential pain, discomfort or cognitive dysfunctions (especially for psychiatric disabilities). By allowing for some flexibility, one leaves enough “wiggle room” without sacrificing a clear and concise tailoring of descriptive delineation.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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