Postal & Federal Government Employee Disability Retirement: Consider the Alternatives

Medical conditions tend to progressively limit and exclude the alternatives, and in the end, one is left with the only option left: Preparing, formulating and filing for Federal or Postal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS, filed with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

That is often the nature and pathway of a medical condition — of progressive worsening and deterioration, where the incremental and debilitating nature of the medical condition itself makes for the increasing likelihood that the Federal or Postal employee will no longer be able to perform all of the essential elements of one’s Federal or Postal position.

There is thus the proportionality between the medical condition and the ability/capacity to continue to work in the same position as one has always worked — Of worsening medical condition in proportion to the elements of the job no longer able to be performed.  Thus, when considering the alternatives, Federal Disability Retirement becomes the only option left at some point.

When that point arrives, you should seek the counsel and advice of a lawyer who specializes exclusively in Federal Disability Retirement Law.

Sincerely,

Robert R. McGill, Lawyer