FERS Disability: postal civil service disability retirement

Legal Representation on Federal Disability Retirement Claims: The Source

October 19, 2018

Every vibrant and expanding civilization relies upon it; the crumbling ones disregard it; and the stagnant ones begin to question their necessity. It is applied in various contexts, but the importance of maintaining its relevance as the authoritative foundation cannot easily be dismissed. We hear the word used in different contexts: Whereof the source of the the River Nile? What are your sources in arriving at your conclusions? […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Force of laughter

September 10, 2018

Is language necessary for laughter to follow? If so, what accounts for the slapstick comedy that erupts with uproarious belly-shaking guffaws that reverberate throughout? What is the fine line between laughter and sorrow — of the man who slips and upends upon a slippery banana left unnoticed on the sidewalk, to realizing that the injuries are serious enough […]

Attorney for OPM Disability Retirement Claims: The gist of it all

May 9, 2018

When do we want the “gist” of something? The essence or the “main idea”; or to filter it into the short version, somewhat like the “spark notes” of the thing of which we seek. Is it appropriate if a student is sitting through a boring lecture and raises his or her hand and asks politely, “I have an activity to attend this afternoon. Can you just give us the gist of what you’re trying to say?” […]

Medical Retirement under FERS & CSRS: The distant bark

January 10, 2018

A lone dog barks in the distance. We cannot determine where, or even from what direction, but the echo of wailing, sometimes of whimpering, reverberates like a mist in the early morning that quietly pervades but can never be grasped. Perhaps it persists, and we leave the safety of our own home in search of the cry, as the forlorn sounds made wavers between a spectrum of hurt, pain, loneliness or urgency of need; no matter the reason, the bark is desperate. […]

OPM Disability Retirement: Outward appearance, inward thoughts

August 23, 2017

It is, of course, the core of Western thought, originating from Socratic arguments against placing one’s faith in the “appearance” of things as opposed to the Platonic Forms that represent true Being; and through Aristotelian arguments of a “substratum” that underlies the outward appearance, to the certitude of Cogito, ergo sum; then, the inner reliance where subjectivity and objectivity coalesce and the distinctions became undoable by Wittgenstein’s standards of banishing all Philosophical problems to mere linguistic confusion, […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: The importance of seeing a way out

December 31, 2016

The strategic approach of allowing for a route of retreat is well-known; by providing an exit option, casualties are lessened and the proportional ferocity of battle often parallels the availability or non-existence of such a pathway out. Cornered animals behave in the same way – and why would they not? Do we think that we are somehow exempt from the genetic predisposition of Darwinian inherency? And the cornered enemy who sees no exit – with the final bullet retained for self-annihilation, the option of surrender not a reality for the traitorous residue to such an act, or of the potential for torture and mutilation naturally following revenge upon actions taken previously; […]

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: ‘Can’ and ‘Have to’

December 21, 2016

The category of the latter has diminished in recent years, as the general populace has mistakenly misinterpreted the distinctive definitions of liberty and freedom, and reassigned meanings as license and anarchy. The blank column of the former concept has come to be full, despite the reality of the economic downturn and the shift into a global economy that, we are told, is an inevitable consequence of human progress. We were taught that the march of progress required the destruction of the American West, where a way of life needed to be trampled upon and destroyed in the name of advancement and civilization; […]

Medical Retirement from Federal Government Employment: The locked certainty

December 17, 2016

It must be nice to walk around this world of insecurity with an intractable sense of locked certainty. There are those some few who possess such a perspective: everything is without any shades of grey; “rightness” is defined by one’s power, position and capacity to impose, and those who stand in the way are mere leftovers in the residue of history’s garbage heap; […]