FERS Disability: federal disability benefits for post office employees

OPM Medical Retirement under FERS: The Promise

March 21, 2019

Can you make a promise to yourself? What would that look like? Would it be valid and binding? If not, how would we “prove” it? Perhaps in a similar manner as Karl Popper’s “falsification” approach — of being able to come up with conditions under which a theory or a posited application can be “falsified”? Take the following hypothetical: A man sits in a cafe and is clearly upset; perhaps he makes unconscious heaving sounds, and tears stream down his face. […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Trapped, the feeling

February 12, 2019

It is an unmistakeable sense; of panic which may ensue, or a narrowing of the universe where being shuttered, the walls shrinking, a sudden and overwhelming feeling of claustrophobia; and of physical manifestations, of an inability to breathe, of constrictions and lameness of limbs; it is all of being trapped, the feeling. It need not be in a physical sense; a psychological condition that is just as real as the reality of the chair one sits upon; but others cannot see it, […]

OPM Retirement for Mental or Physical Incapacity: Of Dreams Before

December 24, 2018

It is the past that always haunts; of dreams before, when youthful vigor and innocence begetting of naïveté left one breathless with a clueless notion of the world. Was it better to live in a world of fantasy, where the world was limitless in its potential — or do we prefer the reality of cynicism where we finally comprehend the restrictions of imposed constraints? […]

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: The house next door

November 24, 2018

It is the one that follows the same comfortable convention for all these many years — of never knowing the intimate details; a wave of the hand every now and again; of fleeting appearances on various days, such as recycling, garbage and the occasional Saturday when the in-laws from out-of-state come to visit on Thanksgiving, or a birthday, or perhaps when a tragedy occurs and the sudden appearance in the driveway that is filled with cars never before seen. […]

Early Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: The chaos of life

October 29, 2018

The Biblical reality depicted in the very first verses reflects a reality more real than most would suppose, and for those who dismiss the ancient Books as merely relics of a superstitious past and thus irrelevant for modernity’s wake of technological sophistication, perhaps a redux and revisitation is in order. Most of life is chaos; or, to put it more starkly, the chaotic lives we lead are the rule, and not the exception. […]

Federal Disability Retirement: When and what to file

September 21, 2016

In preparing an application for Federal Disability Retirement, multiple standard government forms must be completed. As most Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers are under the “FERS” system (an acronym for “Federal Employees Retirement System”) as opposed to the older system of CSRS (standing for, “Civil Service Retirement System”), the applicable forms are comprised of two (2) “sets”: The SF 3107 Series (encompassing the basic forms needed to apply for “immediate retirement”, which is part of the process of filing for Federal Disability Retirement) and the SF 3112 Series […]