FERS Disability: best way to get medical retirement from federal job

OPM Disability Retirement Benefits under FERS: Who we are

March 11, 2019

That is a rather presumptuous title, one might declare; for, it is always the “we” that others presume to know, as opposed to limiting the declarative within the restrictive confines of one’s self, family and surrounding community. What is the great equalizer that allows for the collective plural pronoun? Is it television (i.e., do “we” all watch the same shows and thus form a conglomerate of a universal consciousness)? There was once a time when one could argue that a unity of convention existed […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: The river of life

July 7, 2017

The evocative images of such a metaphorical phrase are immediately understood by most. As in challenges we all face throughout life, a river snakes across different and foreign terrain; in some seasons, a drought may dry up the vibrancy of the river, while in times of plenty, flooding and overabundance may occur. There are periods of swift currents, and days of lazy haze; and underneath the calm exterior is an underworld of activity and blur of living, both of tumult as well as those timeless memories forever remembered, and it is precisely the paradigm upon which Heraclitus staked his perspective upon with the statement that “No man steps in the same river twice.” […]

Medical Retirement from Civil Service: Erasing imprints

April 29, 2017

We spend half of our lives trying to accomplish that which may never be done; go to others to obtain guidance; take medications in order to stamp out the cacophony of voices from a past regenerated in mindful moments when reflection is not what we want but quietude away from the cackle of memories. Imprints are those stamps that remain with us, like burn-marks seared indelibly into the far corners of body parts unreachable and unseen but by the telescopic lenses of our own souls. Perhaps the memories have faded, or we simply cannot pinpoint that precise moment when the stamp was made, […]

Federal Disability Retirement Law: The voice of constructive criticism

February 28, 2017

It is rare for the individual to accept constructive criticism; rarer still, to invite and welcome it in any form, whether destructive, constructive or otherwise characterized as “positive”, “negative” or “neutral”. The fact is that few of us accept any form of it at all, and quickly respond with the rebuttal: “It’s not constructive”. But why does it need to be? […]

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: Expectations beyond the norm

February 8, 2017

We begin the nascent origins of remembrances expecting greater things beyond the normal levels of reality; that is what we now define as a “good childhood” as opposed to a lesser, or even an ordinary one to bear and be burdened with. We are admonished that we can “be anything”; […]

FERS Disability Retirement Application: The tools we have for use

February 4, 2017

The foundation is always “all-important”; but there are other tools at one’s disposal, and the question is: Do we know and recognize what those tools are, and if not, how can we use them out of ignorance? How does SSDI intersect with FERS Disability retirement […]