One can readily discern a template-based letter; it attempts to appear as if the denial is tailored to the particular set of circumstances and unique medical submissions of the Federal or Postal […]
The problem with the use of templates is that they are, over time and overusage, predictable; being predictable, they become ineffective. Now, from the perspective of the Office of […]
It is a frustrating process when the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issues a denial and the Federal employee or Postal Service worker must respond effectively within a limited […]
Filing for a FERS Disability Retirement application is a long, arduous, and complicated bureaucratic process. Preferably, one would like to obviously be approved at the First […]
We live in a universe either comprised of a brave new world (obviously a Huxley referential-metaphor, however overused and misapplied) or one of pure, unadulterated foolishness. […]
The alliteration itself is telling — of the three “w”s which, while whispering which words, whittle away whole wisps of wincing wants. While we wait — what wastes? The “while” is the duration where inaction meanders; the “we” merely identifies an unknown person or persons who engage in the nothingness of inaction; […]
Must every point made by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management be refuted point-by-point”?
Some points, of course, are rather irrelevant and harmless; others, perhaps disingenuous, at best, and poorly argued, at worst. Still others are blatantly untrue (i.e., an euphemism for “a lie”), while the remaining are often taken out of context or singularly […]
There are the two sets of Standard Forms in a Federal Disability Retirement Application: The SF 3107 series, and the SF 3112 series. Both are necessary in order to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits. The first set (SF 3107) merely requests basic information throughout the multiple pages — i.e., name, address, organization, date of birth, social security number, […]
That is what most of us do, because that is what we are expected to do. It is a concept which is gender-neutral, in these days of modernity. Yes, there was a time past, where the female species was given somewhat of a “pass” if she showed weakness or lack of endurance; that, somehow, and for whatever reason, our ancestors referred to women as the “weaker” gender. […]
OPM Disability Retirement, Et Cetera… 