Posted on November 12, 2009 by federallawyer
am often asked the question: How many medical conditions or disabilities should I list in my Applicant’s Statement of Disability (SF 3112A)? This question is often preceded by another [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2009 by federallawyer
Neither length nor detail constitutes legitimacy. The spectrum of the types and styles of denial letters issued by the Office of Personnel Management in Federal Disability Retirement cases under FERS & CSRS range from a short [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2009 by federallawyer
Federal Agencies often act like little fiefdoms. This is not necessarily a negative thing; each agency is an independent entity, and each has a province of responsibilities which it must carry out and execute according to the statutory mandate provided [...]
Filed under: Clarifications of Laws or Rules, FERS Disability, OPM Disability & OWCP Workers Comp Filings, OPM Disability & SSA Social Security Disability Benefits, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) | Tagged: CSRS disability retirement, FERS disability retirement, federal owcp, USPS disability retirement, OPM medical retirement, OWCP benefits for federal workers, OPM disability doesn't have to be job-related, Social Security and OPM disability relationship, Workers Comp disability, OWCP claim, OWCP long term disability, Postal Service workers Comp, statutory criteria for eligibility for disability, federal workers disability criteria, mail handler workers comp, workers comp schedule award, opm medical documents, criterias for disability retirement opm, fers disability and social security disability insurance ssdi, fdr and ssdi offset or interaction, postal and social security disability, disability retirement for federal employees, federal workers benefits for a non work-related injury, usps disability benefits, opm disability retirement blog, usps medical disability, owcp dol, ssa owcp and opm are agencies independent of each other, owcp and opm's independent criteria of eligibility, owcp's workers comp and opm disability are mutually exclusive, statutory mandate of us agencies that provide benefits, schedule award, scheduled award and opm disability are not mutually exclusive, different us agencies have different disability concepts, higher "standards" of disability among agencies, disability benefits for federal workers in guam, total versus partial disability in owcp's and opm's laws, workers comp and the "work-related" criteria of eligibility, opm disability and social security eligibility, choosing between owcp and federal disability, when excessing light duty from usps then consider disability, workers comp is not the only medical benefit for federal workers, understanding differences between workers comp and opm disability, proposing separation because of medical incapacity, no workers comp "retirement" instead opm disability retirement | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 30, 2009 by federallawyer
Agencies are “like” people; they are “organic” organizations (a redundancy?), and as a corporate-like entity, they respond and react as people do: cerebrally, emotionally, reactively, angrily, etc. If one views an agency in this way — treating the entity as one would a person — then you [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2009 by federallawyer
Denials received from the Office of Personnel Management are particularly difficult news to digest. It is not so much that the denial itself obviously represents “bad news” (that is difficult enough), but for the disability retirement [...]
Filed under: U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), When The OPM Application Is Denied | Tagged: OPM disability retirement, FERS disability retirement, Post Office disability, resources for injured federal workers, OPM Reconsideration Stage, civil service disability retirement, USPS disability retirement, OPM clerks, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Fibromyalgia in OPM disabiity retirement, Administrative Law, MSPB Administrative Judge (AJ), Second Step OPM Appeal, opm owcp, examining the basis for the denial, legal help after first application denial, OPM denial letter, disability retirement fers, postal workers owcp rights attorney, when the OPM rejects medical evidence, misstatements as basis for denial, what to do in the OPM Reconsideration Stage, deficiencies of an OPM disability denial, The Denial at the First Stage, OPM unreasonable denial, postal service disability retirement, OPM decision making is not 100% rational or objective, federal disability law blog, pennsylvania opm disability retirement, no work for rehab positions in the Postal Service, usps denial of injury compensation, owcp medical retirement, the federal workers disability application process, opm disability and appeal, how to write a reconsideration for denial, legal representation for injured federal workers, law firm for federal disability retirement, federal opm disability law practice, keeping yourself involved during the opm disability process, fers disability claims process, affect disability retirement federal employee, I need help with my postal disability claim, disability retirement from the USPS, what to do when the OPM rejects application, appeal to first OPM denial decision, OPM denied my FERS disability claim, what's next?, when the federal disability application is rejected, uncertain future for the injured federal worker, If the OPM clerks pre-determines your claim denial, one more chance for incapacitated federal worker, federal government csrs disability, disability retirement from the us postal service, requirements for federal disability retirement, NPS Disability Retirement, federal disability retirement rules, the federal worker with a no-work related illness or condition, opm claims appeal, faa disability retirement, convincing the OPM to change its position, working around an OPM application for disability denial, misinterpretation or misapplication of OPM disability laws | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 26, 2009 by federallawyer
Your Federal disability retirement application was well-prepared: perhaps it was prepared with the help of an attorney; the medical documentation seemed solidly unequivocal; the doctor made the necessary connections [...]
Filed under: OPM Disability Application and/or Process, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), When The OPM Application Is Denied | Tagged: appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, Application, Appeals, and Other Medical Documentation Submitted To the OPM, csrs retirement, disability retirement application, disability retirement from post office, disability retirement packet, examining the basis for the denial, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, federal court decisions in OPM disability cases, federal employee lawyer, FERS medical retirement, financial security for disabled Postal workers, how to win an OPM disability case, legal & foundational argument, medical disability lawyers opm, medical records in opm disability application, medical reports in the OPM disability retirement application, Merit Systems Protection Board and OPM disability, misinterpretation or misapplication of OPM disability law, MSPB Administrative Judge (AJ), MSPB disability lawyer, nexus between medical condition and essential elements, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), OPM disability appeal to the MSPB, OPM First Stage Disability Application, OPM Initial Stage, OPM Specialist, Post Office disability, Postal Service employee advocate, statutory criteria for eligibility for disability, statutory requirements in OPM disability law, the administrative process to get medical disability, US Postal Disability, USPS disability claims, USPS disability retirement, usps medical retirement | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 24, 2009 by federallawyer
Perhaps it is an anomaly to even speak about the issue of “the responsibility” of the Office of Personnel Management — at least, from the general consensus of experiences as told by countless [...]
Filed under: Important Cases, Legal Updates and/or the Current Process Waiting Time, OPM Disability Application and/or Process, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) | Tagged: attorney for US government employees, CSRS disability lawyer, disability retirement facts, disability retirement from post office, disability retirement packet, federal disability attorney's advice, federal disability retirement opm, federal employee lawyer, federal medical retirement, filing for OPM disability retirement, helping injured federal workers, how long the federal disability process last?, medical disability lawyers opm, medical records in opm disability application, MSPB Reconsideration Stage, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), OPM disability application tips, OPM Disability Specialist, OPM Initial Stage in federal disability, OPM Representative, OWCP disability, Postal disability retirement, pragmatic methodology, strategists for a good opm disability application, the approval/disapproval process, time/process issues in OPM disability retirement, US Postal Disability, usps medical retirement, Workers Comp disability | 1 Comment »
OPM Disability Retirement: Service Deficiency & Medical Condition
The Office of Personnel Management will often use as a criteria of denial the argument/basis that despite the fact that an individual may have a medical condition such that the medical [...]
Filed under: OPM Disability Actors - The Agency, OPM Disability Actors - The Supervisor, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) | Tagged: federal medical retirement, FERS disability attorney, federal disability facts, USPS disability retirement benefits, Workers Comp disability, adverse agency reaction, agency's influence in disability retirement, owcp disability retirement, medical disability lawyers opm, disability retirement csrs, postal service disability retirement, postal service medical retirement, fers disability application supervisor comments, owcp medical retirement, federal disability law firm, law firm for federal disability retirement, opm disability for federal workers in alabama, opm disability for federal employees in louisiana, opm disability retirement representation in utah, representing federal employees in and outside the country, representing federal employees from any us government agency, representing us government disability employees anywhere, fers disability benefits, washington state federal opm disability retirement, your supervisor and federal disability retirement, criteria of denial instead of criteria of disability in opm disability, opm's excuses to deny your federal disability retirement, opm disability and the supervisor who says everything's fine, when the agency claims no service deficiency in opm application, when supervisors don't notice any medical condition in federal worker, the incapacitated federal employee without service deficiency, essential elements of jobs not so essential according to evaluation, when work performance evaluations are near too perfect, when top performance hurts the chances of getting fers disability, disability retirement workers compensation, injured postal workers and their miraculous job evaluations, government postal disability, assessment for postal disability retirement from supervisor, agency's extraordinary top assessment in fers disability applications, fers disability attorney in mississippi, workers comp fers retirement, opm supervisor statement disability retirement, disability retirement usps non job related, when there is no accommodation because there is no job deficiency | Leave a Comment »