FERS Disability Retirement

OPM Disability Retirement under FERS: Virtual Reality

October 3, 2019

Say a person says to you, “I was in Japan last night.” You had just seen him the day before, and so you might quickly calculate how many hours it would take for a flight to Japan, how long he could have stayed there and then flown back; and, perhaps you would unduly confuse yourself by thinking, “Perhaps the time-zone shift is such that yesterday is today and today is actually tomorrow’s today because of the international time-zone shift”, […]

FERS Disability Retirement: Refutation of Stefan Zweig’s Essay

October 2, 2019

FERS OPM Medical Retirement: Refutation of Stefan Zweig’s Essay, “Books are the Gateway to the World”. Not quite a refutation, but merely a protest — and perhaps a defense of illiteracy. Zweig writes beautifully; persuasively; in colorful prose that captivates; in convincing form — if not in logical argumentation, but more as a poet who is convinced that words, books, literacy and the spread of the written word is indispensable to life itself. […]

Federal Disability Retirement under FERS: A Thousand Cuts

September 27, 2019

It is the classic question which allegedly reveals something about a person’s inner psyche: Of whether you would rather die from a thousand cuts, or quickly and instantaneously? Of course, the third option is never allowed within the hypothetical, because to include it would defeat the whole purpose of the question: Of continuing to live, or even of a “middle” ground, […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The Stress Test

September 20, 2019

It is meant to determine the vulnerability of structural foundations, or to gauge whether, under certain extreme circumstances, it will withstand catastrophic levels of pressure for safety and soundness. Distress triggers the ultimate test; and whether a breaking point can be established is always a fear — of how low or high, and of what tolerance the test itself will reveal. Objects, composite elements meant to reinforce; and most of all, people […]

Medical Retirement for Federal and Postal Employees: Stupid Mistakes

September 16, 2019

Our first reaction may be that such a phrase is in fact a tautology; for, to make a “mistake” is by definition to do something “stupid”, and so it is merely a redundancy to use and place both terms together. But surely we can conceive of circumstances in which “making a mistake” turns out to be the very opposite of having done something “stupid”? […]

Injured Federal & Postal Employees: “What should I be doing?”

September 13, 2019

It is a query that applies to so many aspects of a successful life; of an endeavor or a pursuit; of preparing the steps in order to attain a level of perfection. Curiosity and the desire to improve are the ingredients of success; the lack of either or both will often leave one behind as others progress. […]

FERS Disability Retirement: Proof and Knowledge

September 4, 2019

The two go hand in hand. That, in and of itself — of “going hand in hand” — is a peculiar metaphor; for, like couples holding hands while taking a walk in the proverbial park, do hands necessarily have to be held in order for comity to be established? Can a person, for example, have proof without knowledge or, conversely, knowledge without proof? […]

Disability Retirement under FERS: Balancing the Unfair Advantage

September 2, 2019

It is the advantage itself — whether by one side or of the other — which creates an imbalance to occur, and it is thus the greater weight on either side defines and constitutes the unfairness of it all. A weighted scale; a pair of loaded dice (it was once the case that such a phrase — “pair of dice” — was unnecessary, because the singular of “dice” was die, and to identify ”dice” was to necessarily state the obvious that it was a pair; […]

OPM Disability Retirement: Responding to a Denial

August 31, 2019

More than ever, OPM is denying FERS Disability Retirement applications. Whether by deliberate design, tightening of legal criteria, imposition of an informal quota system or “just because”, it is clear that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has instituted a campaign of denying Federal Disability Retirement benefits to applicants seeking it. […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Adapting to Change

August 23, 2019

Survival of the species depends upon it; the paradigm of evolutionary theory mandates it; and the human propagation for advancement thrives through it. Change is difficult. It was once believed that the malleability of youth allowed for greater resistance to a damaged psyche; yet, from the plethora of late-night confessions, it has become clear that divorce and family divisions left residual scars upon children no matter […]

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FERS Disability

FERS Disability Retirement: Refutation of Stefan Zweig’s Essay

Disability Retirement under FERS: Balancing the Unfair Advantage

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Adapting to Change