I am often asked that question — will all medical conditions be listed? What happens if a medical condition is not listed, but later develops into something serious? That is the essence of the problem of the unlisted medical condition, of course. In a FERS or CSRS Federal Disability Retirement application, once the packet is submitted to the Office of Personnel Management and a CSA Number is assigned to it, you are precluded from amending the Applicant’s Statement of Disability by adding further medical conditions.
Thus, the problem in not listing a medical condition (or a symptom thereof) can have exponential significance. In such a situation, one option would be to withdraw the Federal Disability Retirement application and resubmit it anew.
The loss of time involved, however, is one obstacle which often makes an applicant pause at such a drastic step. Another problem — one which cannot be overcome — is if you have filed within the statutory timeframe, but the 1-year of separation occurs after you filed your application for Federal Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS. In that hypothetical, you are “locked in”, because you cannot withdraw your application. To do so would leave you with no avenue to “refile”, because the 1-year statute has already passed and precludes you from filing again.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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