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 […]
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 […]
It is important in preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application to make the distinction between essential, substantive issues which will need to be addressed, and those issues […]
In filing a Federal Disability Retirement application, there is the “shotgun approach” — of peppering the application with any and all medical conditions which may prevent or otherwise impact […]