OPM Disability Retirement: The Resignation Argument
Sometimes, in preparing to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the Office of Personnel Management under FERS or CSRS, one is either forced to resign or, because of financial […]
Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
Sometimes, in preparing to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the Office of Personnel Management under FERS or CSRS, one is either forced to resign or, because of financial […]
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.
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 […]
Technically, the law does not have to be applied at the administrative, agency-level of the Office of Personnel Management. Let me clarify: one likes to always think that when an applicant […]
An appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board in a Federal Disability Retirement case means that the disability retirement application has been denied twice by the Office of Personnel Management: at the initial application stage […]
Not all cases that should be won, are won. No one can win 100% of the time; think about it […]
To reiterate: Situational disability can be an issue which can defeat a disability retirement application, precisely because OPM (and if […]
The third step in the process of filing and obtaining disability retirement from the Office of Personnel Management is to […]
When putting on a disability retirement case under FERS or CSRS before the Merit Systems Protection Board, it is essential […]
When an individual has attempted to obtain disability retirement under FERS or CSRS on his/her own, but has failed at […]