FERS Disability: a federal attorney's legal methodology and approach

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Deprogramming a Preconditioned Approach

August 27, 2016

The preconditioned attitude of the general public is that, if X has a medical condition, then such medical condition, by the very nature of the condition itself, will either entitle one to benefits, or not. Such an approach is what one is conditioned to expect — that by the very nature of the medical condition itself, means that it will either lead to, or not lead to, a specified result. This viewpoint and approach is based upon a definitional standard, where the very essence of what it means to suffer from X already predetermines whether one is eligible and entitled to benefit Y. […]

Federal Employees Disability Retirement Systems: The Quarantined Mind

January 24, 2015

From early childhood, the necessity of imposing constraints and conformity produces the positive effect of a well-ordered society. But corollary and unforeseen consequences often occur, as in the quashing of creativity and mindsets which step outside of the proverbial “box”. […]

The Sequence of Steps during Federal Disability Retirement Filing

October 21, 2014

Confusion often results in a meandering of purposes; on a graph, it is rarely the linear focus of a clear start point with an end goal; instead, the zig-zagging effect of wasted energies manifests a lack of insight into the procedural methodologies which should be followed in any endeavor. Just as a broken clock can be correct in telling time twice in a 24-hour period, so an endeavor engaged can sometimes result in an effective product, but one should never rely upon the statistical chance that success will result from confusion. […]

Federal Employee’s Medical Retirement Programs: Propriety of Sequence

July 11, 2014

Propriety is not a concept which is much discussed, anymore. That which is socially or morally “proper” has been discarded, precisely because convention is no longer accepted as a standard to follow. But when the consistent pursuance of the opposite of X becomes the […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Striving for an Unobtrusive Life of Quietude

May 26, 2014

When first entering the adversarial universe of trial lawyers, a kindly but seasoned opposition who easily made foolish mincemeat out of the flustered composite of inexperience and youthful exuberance, but later approached to compliment the young […]

OPM Disability Retirement: The Fallacy of Incremental Procrastination

December 9, 2013

It will be just another week; or perhaps a month; by the end of six weeks, it will all be resolved. But the insidious nature of incrementalism is precisely in the cumulative loss from a retrospective viewpoint. Time comes in ticking seconds; ticking seconds accumulate […]

Federal Gov. and USPS Disability Retirement: The Story Genre

November 15, 2013

There is quite obviously a human need to relate the narrative; of one’s community events, tragedies and triumphs; from the days of cave paintings to rote retelling of the group’s identity and character of historical form and content, the telling of one’s story is, and remains, […]

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Bureaucracy and the Objective Algorithm

October 14, 2013

On the one hand, objectivity can be viewed as a positive thing; for, with it, one is assured that all applications are treated equally, by the implementation of identical criteria across the board. “Gut feelings”, personal beliefs, and that “sixth sense” is eliminated; and […]

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Correlation, Correspondence & Causation

August 31, 2013

How we assert and connect disparate facts reveals the extent of one’s understanding of the conceptual distinctions to be made between correlation, correspondence and causation. Correlation, in its normative usage, refers to the relationship […]

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Key Words and Phrases

June 27, 2013

In every writing endeavor, there arises over time an identification of the efficacy of certain key words and phrases. The problem with such identification, however, is that the deliberate extrapolation and insertion of such “keys” will often lead to over usage […]