How did we learn how to give the reasons given?
We often meander through life doing the things which we do, not because we have analyzed or assessed those things we do, but because of habit and convenience of monotonous refrain.
Did you actually ever learn how to prepare, formulate and provide a “reason”? Or, perhaps you came from a family where your parents were too busy to provide the proper “reasons”, which is the basis of forming the “process” of adequate “reasoning”?
Did your parents say things like, “Just because…”. Or — “I don’t know; go ask your mom.” Or even: “Don’t bother me with your questions!”
Furthermore, if you went to college, were the classes mostly a drone of lectures, or were you subjected to the Socratic method of questions-building-upon-questions in order to doggedly require the fine-tuning of the reasons given?
And, as you entered the Federal workforce, how much of your work is merely based upon the attitude of, “This is done this way because it is the way it has always been done”, or do you have some creative leeway for your own input?
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who must contemplate preparing an effective OPM Disability Retirement application under FERS because of a medical condition which will not go away, preparing such an application must by necessity involve reasons given which must address both the “things which have always been done” as well as the uniqueness of your particular situation.
In a Federal Disability Retirement application which has any chance for an approval at all, the reasons given to justify your FERS Federal Disability Retirement application must include a sufficient legal basis in order to successfully persuade the U.S. Office of Personnel Management as to your eligibility.
Contact an OPM Disability Lawyer who specializes in Federal Disability Retirement Law to ensure that the reasons given meet that sufficiency test, and not be denied because your reasons given are essentially the age-old failing attempt of, “Because I said so”.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill
Lawyer exclusively representing Federal and Postal employees to secure their Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
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