OPM Disability Retirement: OWCP, EEOC, Grievances & the Comfort Zone

Medical conditions are often accompanied by the necessity to engage in certain forums, to initiate particular legal actions, and to file for alternative means of compensation. [....]

USPS and Federal Disability Claims: Medical Conditions which Predate Federal or Postal Employment

Often, there is a concern about medical conditions which one suffers from, which “predate” employment in the Federal Sector, or with the U.S. Postal Service. Such conditions are often identified [...]

OPM Disability Retirement: Football, Fair Play, and Federal Disability Retirement

Obviously, with the Super Bowl upcoming this weekend, any references to the game itself, whether by forced analogy or metaphor, is nevertheless an appropriate one. I will play the politically safe [...]

OPM Disability Retirement: Privacy, Social Media and Detracting Information

In the modern age of social media, where information on what previously was considered “private” details of personal and family life is widely disseminated, freely provided, [...]

Happy New Year

For Federal and Postal workers under either FERS or CSRS who are contemplating preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, and for all those who are awaiting an approval for a pending application before the Office of Personnel Management — may you have a safe and Happy New Year for 2012. For those who have already obtained a Federal Disability Retirement — may the coming year find your medical conditions bearable, and hope that you may recover sufficiently in order to find the economy in stable shape so you may find other employment, and perhaps make up to 80% of what your former Federal or Postal position pays, while keeping your OPM Disability benefits. Have a Happy New Year. Sincerely, Robert R. McGill, Esquire.

OPM Disability Retirement: Medical Conditions & the Holidays

Part of the problem for the Federal or Postal employee who is contemplating preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the Office of Personnel [...]

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

For many Federal and Postal employees who have contemplated, or actually engaged, the long, administrative process of preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, the best Christmas present would be an approval from the Office of Personnel Management, thereby securing one’s financial and economic future for the coming New Year, and subsequent years. Short of that, however, for all of the Federal and Postal employees who are considering filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, who are in the process of filing, or who have filed and are awaiting a decision, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Sincerely, Robert R. McGill, Esquire.

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Holiday Slowdown

The time between the 20th of December until the beginning of the following year has traditionally been a slowing down period, and Federal and Postal Workers who are preparing, [...]

Federal Disability Retirement: Preparation — like a Black Friday Event

“Black Friday” is a term which represents the concept of frenzied action, of waiting for the gates of hell to release the mass exodus of rationality, unleashed for the treadmill of buying, “saving” money [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Triteness is not a quality of expression which one should engage in repeatedly. Such expressive lack of profundity, normally accomplished through overuse of a phrase or expression, results from laziness or a lack of effort in embracing the powerful tools of the English language. Thanksgiving succumbs to such triteness, [...]