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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Legal Standards

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Federal Disability Attorney

Recent decisions issued by the Full Board of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board — specifically, Henderson v. OPM, decided on January 31, 2012, reestablishes the two general [...]

Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: Annotating the Record

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Federal Disability Attorney

It is always important, in contemplating a Federal Disability Retirement application either under FERS or CSRS, to annotate the record where possible. Remember that the Merit Systems Protection [...]

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Bruner Revisited

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Federal Disability Attorney

In filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, one should never pause or hesitate from affirmatively going forward in preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application [...]

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OPM Disability Retirement: The 1-Year Rule

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Federal Disability Attorney

Periodically, I remind everyone of the various “1-year” rules which govern Federal Disability Retirement issues under FERS & CSRS. Since there are multiple applications of the 1-year rule [...]

OPM Disability Retirement: Legal Arguments

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Federal Disability Attorney

Whether and to what extent legal arguments in Federal Disability Retirement cases under FERS or CSRS should be made, should rarely be ventured into by non-lawyers. The boundaries of legal [...]

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Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: Reconsiderations

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Federal Disability Attorney

There is a line to be drawn between arguing the law within a boundary of integrity, and arguing the law beyond any reasonable interpretation of the law. This principle is no less true in [...]

OPM Disability Retirement: After Separation from Service (Part 2)

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Federal Disability Attorney

Of course, it is always the separation from service based upon reasons delineated other than medically-based reasons which give rise to concerns in a federal disability retirement case. [...]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The Agency & the Individual

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Federal Disability Attorney

The National Reassessment Program (NRP) now implemented in full force, along with the Voluntary Early Retirement, the cash incentives (many have called to ask whether or [...]

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CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Clarity over Question

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Federal Disability Attorney

While a compromise position on certain issues in Federal Disability Retirement for FERS & CSRS may be the best that one may hope for, obviously, clarity over question is the better course to have. Thus, for instance, in a removal [...]

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OPM Disability Retirement: Argument by Analogy

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Federal Disability Attorney

Attorneys argue “by analogy” all of the time; cases and decisions from the Merit Systems Protection Board, and language from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, provide the fertile fodder for such argumentation. Thus, such issues [...]

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