FERS Disability: if you are in owcp rolls and you are separated from fed service you may lose retirement benefits forever

FERS Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: How is it?

April 2, 2019

How is it that the world became the way it is without our knowing it? How is it that the rules were already in place, the lands already divided, the waters already polluted, the debt already ballooning, the inventions already made — how did that come about, and who told us the history of the “what”, “when” and “where” of the past? Can a society long endure while ignoring the past of how it developed and came into being? […]

OPM Disability Retirement Claims: The Lost Wallet

January 1, 2019

It is a sinking feeling, a sense of foreboding, and a sudden realization of the empty back pocket that then leads to a feeling of panic. Or of reaching and finding that the purse that is so carelessly hanging from one’s shoulder, or looped over a forearm — is not there. It is the nonexistence of something that suddenly brings to existence the sensation of fear, emptiness, loathing — and resultant panic. […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Foreboding Sense

December 1, 2018

Are such “feelings” valid? Does it even make any sense to apply the criteria of validity to a “feeling”, or are there circumstances where a foreboding sense of things can be accepted as a confirmed truth? Does an outcome-based application of the criteria determine the validity of a feeling? […]

How much OPM Disability Retirement Pays?

February 15, 2018

“What will the benefit pay?” That is often the primary concern of a Federal or Postal employee who must consider filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), and it is certainly a valid first question. The greater concern that cannot be overlooked, however, is the one that involves calculating the cost of NOT filing. In the end, those Federal and Postal employees who must consider filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits […]

OPM Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Conspiracy of life

March 25, 2017

Tabloids lead us to suspect it; odd coincidences force us to confront it; and the amassed aggregate of life experiences allow us to consider seriously the implications of it. Are there such deliberative interconnections that make seeming chance encounters more than the arbitrary clashes of random events, such that they are planned, coordinated and precipitated by human activity beyond mere statistical anomalies? If the creation of the natural world can be acceptably explained by evolutionary forces […]

OPM Disability Retirement: Those bare moments of honesty

January 12, 2016

They come in flashes of rare instances; sometimes, in a more subtle manner, like encroachments by a nimble adversary; at others, tantamount to ugly boils erupting in the middle of one’s forehead while interviewing for a sought-after position. We cloak ourselves in lies, more lies, and obfuscations wrapped in greater deceptions of self-doubt. Sometimes, such concealment is necessary; for, perhaps it is an evolutionary tool in order to merely survive. […]

Federal Disability Retirement: Life as a Byproduct

October 14, 2015

When it happens, or how, is of insignificant notice; the incremental arrival, where past segments of time seemed to traverse epochs where memories captured mere millennia of lifetimes; and then, one day, you wake up and yawn, and your life has taken on an incidental, tertiary level of importance. […]

OPM Medical Retirement: Time, Memories and Forgetting the Never-ending Cycle

October 9, 2015

It is well that human beings have short attention spans and memories, lest the magnification of residual retentive powers should lead one to act. Despite daily repetition of pain, frustration and humiliation or turmoil, we are ready to repeat the process, and let our memories fade into oblivion. Perhaps it is merely another one of the genetically-engineered traits for survivability within the evolutionary context of epochs of adaptation; or, a more proverbial mis-attribution to P.T. Barnum […]

OPM Disability Retirement: Pursuing the Daily Divide

September 14, 2015

The bifurcation of our lives is a habit of accepted normative behavior; for most, it is the simple divide between one’s personal life and professional endeavors; then, there are sub-categories of complicated spectrums, where criminal activity is pigeonholed from a daytime semblance of respectability, or deviant behavior is concealed from one’s reputation and facade of societal refinement. Those separations make for ease of transition, or used to. […]