Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
On the other hand, there is no such thing as a “lost cause” case. To assert such a conclusion would be to presumptively admit defeat. In Federal Disability Retirement cases, there is always […]
I am often asked whether or not a medical report from the “specialist” will have a greater impact than a family doctor. Implied in such a question, of course, is a perspective which tends […]
There is obviously an assumption to be made that if a case is denied at the initial stage of the process of filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, that a “mistake” […]
For a lawyer, it is indeed the “lost cause” which is the most challenging of cases. This is no less true in Federal Disability Retirement cases for Federal and Postal Employees under FERS & CSRS.
The problem with the use of templates is that they are, over time and overusage, predictable; being predictable, they become ineffective. Now, from the perspective of the Office of […]
One would like to think that the Office of Personnel Management takes each case independently, reviews each case according to the merit of that particular case, and that, based upon a fair, […]
There are horror stories: of people on “disability” who are watched and video-taped, and after having 500 hours of taping, it is edited to show that, within a 2-minute period, it is revealed […]
This is not to say that the Reconsideration Stage of the process, in the stage where there has (obviously) been an initial denial, should not retell a narrative; it is to simply point out […]
With each case, a story must be told. If the case gets denied, normally my approach is not so much that a “narrative” must be retold, but rather, I tend to view the Reconsideration […]
Is an official diagnosis important? It certainly makes for a “clean” Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS & CSRS, and indeed, sometimes the Office of Personnel Management […]