Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
The Office of Personnel Management will often request that a doctor’s “office” or “treatment” notes be attached for approximately the last 1 – 2 years. What is the purpose of this request? […]
It is important at all stages of a Federal Disability Retirement application for FERS & CSRS employees to predict, anticipate, and preempt the arguments which the Office of Personnel […]
The old saying: Measure twice, cut once, can be adapted here: Verify twice, submit once. I am always surprised by Federal and Postal employees who have filed for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS to hear that a […]
It is important to understand that the “process” of filing for Federal Disability Retirement, when it comes to the Second, or “Reconsideration” Stage, encompasses two factual prisms: (1) The application has now been denied (obviously, […]
Often, pragmatic judgments and decisions must be considered at different stages of a disability retirement application. For instance, whether to […]