Federal Disability Retirement: The Agency
I have written on this particular topic in the past, but certain issues seem to be “recurring thematic issues” which need constant vigilance in approaching it in the proper manner. Filing for...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement: More on the MSPB Stage
While I believe that an attorney versed in the Federal Disability Retirement process can be helpful at all stages of the process, at the Third Stage — the Merit Systems Protection Board stage — the...
View ArticleCSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: OPM Disability Retirement & Postal Service...
For multiple reasons, early retirement — if eligible; if offered; if … — is an option which must be considered by a Federal or Postal employee. In the coming months, Voluntary Early Retirement will be...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement: Interaction with Upcoming Postal VER
High pressure sales always need to be met with a pause, a breath, and a moment of reflection. This is not to attempt to splash any cold water upon the impending Voluntary Early Retirement packets...
View ArticleCSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The First Denial
One should not be overly panicked when the Office of Personnel Management denies a disability retirement application at the initial stage of the process. Certainly, the denial needs to be taken...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement: Interaction with EEOC & Other Legal Processes
I am often asked if other legal processes already filed — an EEOC Complaint, a corollary adverse action being appealed, etc. — will have an impact upon a Federal Disability Retirement application. My...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement: The Process at the MSPB
When a FERS or CSRS disability retirement application has made its way in the “process” to the “Third Stage” — the Merit Systems Protection Board — then I (as an attorney) must be unequivocal in my...
View ArticleCSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: The Time It Takes For the “Process”Why...
Because it is a “process” as opposed to an application to obtain an automatic service, commodity or benefit, a Federal Disability Retirement application necessarily takes time. It takes time to...
View ArticleOPM Disability Retirement: The Right Time
For each Federal and Postal employee, there is a “right” time to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS & CSRS. By “right time”, I do not mean as to the proper timing in the...
View ArticleFERS Disability Retirement: Applicant’s Statement of DisabilityFederal...
In most instances, when I am asked to represent an applicant at the Reconsideration Stage, after he or she has attempted to obtain an approval at the Initial Stage without an attorney, I find that the...
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