FERS Disability: how to check on retirement status of a postal disability retirement application

OPM Lawyers Strategy: What If My OPM Disability Claim Is Denied?

January 22, 2019

Doubting can become infectious. Once the confidence wanes, the seeds of doubt have been planted; once the seeds begin to sprout, further fears of shaken self-confidence begin to appear, and the shattering of a once-certain sense of calm begins to pervade insidiously within the soul of a questioning mind. A denial from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in a Federal Disability Retirement case is intended to do exactly that: Doubt the strength of your case. […]

Federal Disability Retirement Representation: Living Anguish

October 30, 2018

Two or more meanings can be gleaned, often depending upon the emphasis one places upon the sequence of words uttered. One is the experience of the state itself; the other, the active phenomena in the presence of now. In either form, the clear implication embraces the state of anguish, whether in a living state, or by living it. […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Simplicity revisited

May 24, 2018

We all yearn for it, though we defy the very thought of it by living in its corollary. Simplicity is what we preach, that of which we dream and for which we strive; but, in the end, the clutter of life’s misgivings always seems to overwhelm, dominate and ultimately destroy. Do people still run off in a crazed dash and join a monastery in order to escape the complications of life? Are there such places, anymore — of a monastic order that welcomes strangers who have “lost it” […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Owning a landline

November 4, 2017

It is perhaps the single telling factor of a generational divide; if you own a landline, it is likely you are not a millennial. Or from the generation just before, or even the one before that. You are probably from the generation sometime within the timeframe of “just after” the Korean War and around the end of the Vietnam War. It is the remembrance of unreliable “bag” phones and cellular connections that barely became audible; but more than that, it is the evidence of who one is based upon the generational divide […]

Federal Disability Retirement: Possibilities to pursue

March 7, 2017

In one sense, it is nonsensical to ask the question: “Is it possible to…?” For, is there any limitation to the concept of the possible? Isn’t it possible that there are Martians on Mars, but in a parallel universe unseen and concealed from the human eye? Isn’t it possible that the room you leave disintegrates molecularly, then reconstitutes itself the moment you reenter? […]

Federal & Postal Medical Retirement: Agencies and the Opium Den of Yore

August 22, 2015

They were dark caverns of gatherings; residual consequences of colonialism; and though denied in polite society, the lure of addictive aroma wafting ever pervasively brought men and women repeatedly to the doors which opened for the pleasurable moment of escape. It was like going back, and staying, despite knowing the harm it did, […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Purgatory Reverie

March 4, 2015

The state of the intermediate, the surreal loss of traction in suspended animation; of trying to jog on ice, or to reach a destination traveling on a treadmill; this is a sense one is left with in dealing with a juggernaut of a bureaucratic morass. In this day of immediacy, where the instant satisfaction of wants and the now of gratifications is met and reinforced by the push of a key, the click of a mouse, and touch of a sensor; and as virtue is no longer looked upon as a necessary ingredient of character, […]