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Federal & Postal Service Disability Retirement: After a Resignation

Posted on October 22, 2009 by federallawyer

Anyone and everyone who has followed my blogs or my more lengthy articles knows that an individual has up to one (1) year to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS [...]

Federal & Postal Service Disability Retirement: Agency Support

Posted on October 12, 2009 by federallawyer

Sometimes, the question comes up as to whether or not it is important to have the blessing or support of the Agency or the USPS, when filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS [...]

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Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The Agency & the Individual

Posted on September 24, 2009 by federallawyer

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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Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: OWCP, SSD, NRP, Etc.

Posted on September 22, 2009 by federallawyer

Nothing works in a vacuum. Issues surround medical disabilities, the Federal and Postal workforce, Social Security Disability benefits, and Federal Disability Retirement benefits, as well as temp- [...]

Filed under: Accommodation and Light Duty, Important Cases, Legal Updates and/or the Current Process Waiting Time, Resigning or Being Separated From a Federal Agency for Medical Problems, U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Disability Retirement | Tagged: A Re-Assessment in the Value of Disabled Postal Workers: NRP, attention federal worker - when the agency wants you to resign, condition that prevents to perform the essential functions, disability retirement for federal employees, disabled workers in the us postal service, excessing light duty from post office, federal workers's potential potential traps in the road towards stability, future of limited duty us postal employees, how the postal service is getting rid of all its light duty employees, injury compensation and light limited duty, intersecting medical issues for disabled federal employees, issues surrounding disability intersect each other, light duty federal employees and the social security, light duty jobs USPS, limited duty and rehab employees in the postal service, limited duty assignments united states postal service, limited duty postal service, limited jobs for light duty employees, National Reassessment Process (NRP), nationwide representation of federal employees, no light duty jobs in the usps with the recession, no workers comp "retirement" instead opm disability retirement, nrp and the "re-assessment" that rehabs are worth nothing by sending them home, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP), OPM disability retirement, OWCP benefits for federal workers, post office light duty, postal and social security disability, Postal disability retirement, postal reform package and the future of light duty employees, postal service layoffs of light duty employees, representing federal employees from any us government agency, representing federal employees in and outside the country, scaring disabled workers so they resign without getting any benefits, Social Security and OPM disability relationship, the light duty postal employee considering ssdi benefits, the program that "re-assess" a wrong value to postal employees: nrp, The USPS Limited Duty NRP, US Postal Service NRP, USPS disability retirement benefits, usps limited duty jobs, USPS Workers Comp, value of a human being not defined by disabilities, when excessing light duty from usps then consider disability, when light duty is not longer available to postal workers | Leave a Comment »

CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Clarity over Question

Posted on September 19, 2009 by federallawyer

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 [...]

Filed under: Agency’s and/or Supervisor’s Actions, Federal Disability Judge-Made Decisions Quoted, LWOP and Sick Leave in OPM Disability, OPM Disability Actors - The Agency, Resigning or Being Separated From a Federal Agency for Medical Problems, U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Disability Retirement | Tagged: Postal Service disability, Postal Service employee advocate, USPS disability retirement, Bruner Presumption, LWOP in federal disability retirement, sick leave in OPM disability, postal service actions against the postal worker, Notice of Removal, MSPB Administrative Judge (AJ), Postal Service workers Comp, fighting a proposed removal by Postal management, establishing a medical condition with USPS management, removal proposal against federal employees, Advanced Notice of Proposed Removal (Notice), disruptive behavior or a medical condition at the USPS, "AWOL" for medical reasons, "excessive LWOP" as ground for removal, long lwop for nervous or mental conditions, federal government one year lwop, if you were denied for usps owcp injury claim, long lwop sick leave for stress, Bruner v. Office of Personnel Management, considerations before resigning from the us postal service, when the postal service wants the resignation of an ill employee, exhausting sick leave because of injury or illness, long sick leave because of stress in the federal government, bruner presumption in opm disability and its limitations, establishing a medical condition before federal service separation, the scrutiny of the mspb administrative judge, agency removal action and opm disability retirement, removal from the postal service for excessive absences, compromise over a removal from service action opm disability, federal employee removal due to medical conditions, medical removal from federal employment, when the federal government wants to remove you from employment, excessive absences from your us federal job, using excessive sick leave while in federal employment, when the postal service accuses you of awol, postal service discrimination against injured employees, no injury compensation on federal employment, being absent from federal employment because of medical issues, absenteeism and attendance issues in the federal workplace, making the case that absenteeism was medically related, federal employment and proving that absences are medically related, removing a postal employee because of excessive sickness, when the agency removes you for being physically unable to work, usps and removal due to excessive use of lwop and sick leave, adverse action on excessive unscheduled lwop, disciplinary action for using too much unscheduled lwop, adverse action for sick leave "misconduct", considerations before resigning federal job for medical problems, missing work in the federal workplace due to medical reasons, federal disability and your rights as a federal employee, your rights as a federal workers and sick leave | Leave a Comment »

CSRS & FERS Disability Disability Retirement: OWCP & the Postal Service

Posted on August 27, 2009 by federallawyer

For many years, being on Worker’s Comp when injured while working for the Postal Service, worked fairly well. The Postal Service, in conjunction with, and in coordination, would offer an [...]

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CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Agency Supervisors

Posted on July 9, 2009 by federallawyer

Federal Agencies, and the Postal Service, can act as little fiefdoms, with minimal oversight in the use of power. There is no school which teaches the proper use of power; power is something which is too often misused, misapplied, and abused. And, those who possess power, often exponentially apply it when [...]

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Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: The Initial Federal or USPS Disability Process

Posted on April 17, 2009 by federallawyer

Many people get confused when they first consult with an attorney about USPS or Federal Disability Retirement benefits. Indeed, before consulting with an attorney, an individual who [...]

Filed under: Clarifications of Laws or Rules, OPM Disability & OWCP Workers Comp Filings, U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Disability Retirement | Tagged: "Second Opinion" doctor from the OWCP, CSRS disability retirement, federal agencies and secop doctors, federal disability retirement application and process, federal employee lawyer, federal employees miraculous recovery, Federal employees' work-related injury or disease compensation, FERS medical retirement, helping injured federal workers, Initial Stage of the OPM disability process, medical condition must last one year, medical disability lawyers opm, nexus between medical condition and essential elements, OPM disability application tips and strategies, OWCP benefits for federal workers, OWCP case manager, owcp retirement, OWCP Termination of Benefits, OWCP/Disability Retirement, Post Office disability, postal service workers compensation claims, Robert R. McGill, separated from service, the federal agency and occupational medicine, the OWCP/DOL process, the Postal Service best kept secret, us postal service disability retirement, USPS Disability, USPS disability retirement, usps medical retirement, work-place accident in a federal or Postal job, Workers Comp caseworker, Workers Comp is a temporary disability program | 3 Comments »

CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: VER, the Economy, & Decisions to Make

Posted on April 2, 2009 by federallawyer

The news coming out on the Voluntary Early Retirement offer for Postal employees has not been very positive. My information has been gathered from multiple sources: Official Statements from the U.S. Postal Service [...]

CSRS & FERS Disability Disability Retirement: Interaction with VER, A Continuing Dialogue

Posted on March 31, 2009 by federallawyer

I sincerely hope that the proposed VERs which will be issued in the next couple of weeks will be economically viable and rewarding for those who qualify. I say this because the primary [...]

Filed under: Agency’s and/or Supervisor’s Actions, U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Disability Retirement | Tagged: Analyzing short- and long-term VER benefits, careful consideration of VERA (early retirement), civil service disability, CSRS disability lawyer, disability federal workers, disability retirement at the USPS, disability retirement opm, federal disability attorney, federal employee disability, federal employee disability benefits, federal employees disability benefits, federal workers comp, FERS medical retirement, ill federal employee, Is 2009 USPS VERA comparable to a "full retirement"?, OPM disability in a tough economy, OWCP long term disability, Post Office disability, Postal disability retirement, Postal VER, postal workers injury attorney, the economy and federal disability retirement, USPS disability retirement, USPS self interest, VER 2009 (Voluntary Early Retirement), VER important cost-benefits analysis, Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) | Leave a Comment »

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