OPM Disability Retirement: Fairness
“Fairness” is a difficult concept to set aside, even when it is in the best interests of one to do so. The underlying list of supporting reasons may be many — that the Agency […]
Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
“Fairness” is a difficult concept to set aside, even when it is in the best interests of one to do so. The underlying list of supporting reasons may be many — that the Agency […]
Waiting for a decision to be rendered by the Office of Personnel Management for a submitted Federal Disability Retirement application, either at the Initial Stage of the Process, […]
Remember that the official Job Description may provide an antiseptic-like delineation of the major functions of a particular position. From that, one may infer, imply and extract the daily […]
With almost everything in life, it is that metaphorical “first step” which is the most difficult in the process of beginning, enduring, and accomplishing anything. This is no different in filing a Federal Disability application […]
Changes in life occur at critical times, and whether the critical time-period is determined by the medical condition, or other events, what is always important is to take the affirmative […]
Major life changes occur at some point for everyone — new births; deaths; marriage; major illnesses. The trauma of a life-changing event such as a medical condition […]
People continually inquire as to the difference between Psychiatric v. Physical disabilities, as to whether one is more amenable to an approval over the other. Psychiatric […]
Proper preparation is the key to success in every endeavor. Often, such preparation means that one must project for a disapproval at any given stage in filing an application […]
There is a singular focus when preparing for a Hearing at the Merit Systems Protection Board: that of persuading and convincing an Administrative Judge that you have proven, […]
The entire process of preparing and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS should be accomplished with the view that it will end up at the Merit Systems […]