Types of reconsideration decisions denying an applicant his or her Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS can and do span the entire spectrum, depending upon the OPM representative who writes up the decision: from half a page (barely giving a passing, respectful review to a packet which took multiple hours to put together) to over 3 pages long (in the “Discussion Section”); from merely listing general principles of law and generalized, template-like denials to apparent detailed (but very selective) references to various medical reports submitted by the applicant as part of the disability retirement packet — they all boil down to the same thing: a denial at the initial application stage.
Often, an initial reaction to the denial encompasses a myriad of responses, ranging from incredulity, to resignation, to anger, to indignation. Set aside the emotionalism. Further, there is often the reaction to that “one piece” of medical information which the applicant believes should have turned that “denial” into an “approval” — that “one piece” of medical note, statement, sentence, or paragraph which the OPM representative conveniently disregarded or chose not to reference. Don’t ruminate over it. It may well be that it was deliberately disregarded; it may even have been overlooked. More than likely, the OPM representative was fully aware of it, but decided to selectively choose his or her basis as the more “important” and “substantive” evidence, forming the core rationale of the denial. Don’t waste time. More work is needed — both medical as well as legal.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
Filed under: Application, Appeals, and Other Medical Documentation Submitted To the OPM, OPM Disability Actors - The OPM Representatives, OPM Disability Process - 2nd Stage: OPM Reconsideration Stage, When the OPM Application Is Denied | Tagged: a rational response to an unreasonable letter of denial opm benefits, An employee appealing OPM's denial, attorney to help a usps employee get opm disability, before you write your reconsideration argument to the opm, bring up csrs federal disability retirement, controlling anger and disappointment after opm disability denial, deficiencies of an OPM disability denial, disability retirement benefits under fers, discussion section in the opm denial letter, examining the basis for the denial, federal employee disability benefits, federal employee medical retirement, federal employee's indignation after denial of medical disability, federal medical retirement FERS disability, federal workers winning disability benefits even after first denial, FERS disability retirement, fers disability retirement law firm, FERS medical retirement, Filing the Request for Reconsideration after first OPM denial, help for rural carriers seeking disability retirement, illogical reasons used by the opm to deny fers disability retirement, medical reports in the OPM disability retirement application, misstatements as basis for denial, nationwide representation of federal employees, non industrial disability for federal employees, opm decision denying disability benefits, opm denial letter templates and the essence of the denial, opm disability cases, OPM disability retirement, opm disability retirement representation in utah, OPM Disability Specialist, OPM Reconsideration Stage, OPM Representative, OPM's methodology, postal disability for supervisors, Postal Service disability, representing federal employees from any us government agency, representing federal employees in and outside the country, reversing the course of an opm disability denial, setting aside emotionalism after the opm denial of disability benefits, the dreaded denial letter, the federal disability denial letter and the federal employee's reactions, the first opm denial of federal employee medical retirement, the medical condition in fers disability retirement, the opm representative's first-level decision-making process, types of opm disability denial letters, USPS disability retirement, usps medical retirement, washington dc fers disability retirement, when the opm denial for disability letter is just another opm template, when the opm misuses the medical information you submitted, working around an OPM application for disability denial | Leave a comment »
