• Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Us
  • Copyright
  • Credentials

OPM Disability Retirement

Entries RSS | Comments RSS
  • Pages

    • About Me
    • Contact Us
    • Copyright
    • Credentials
  • Archives

  • Categories

    • Accommodation and Light Duty (40)
    • Advantages of Federal Disability Retirement (27)
    • Agency’s and/or Supervisor’s Actions (44)
    • Application, Appeals, and Other Medical Documentation Submitted To the OPM (43)
    • Burden of Proof (30)
    • Clarifications of Laws or Rules (160)
    • CSRS Disability (1)
    • Eligibility Criteria (18)
    • Evaluation Of Your OPM Disability Claim – How Do I Know If I Have A Strong Case? (17)
    • Fables, Stories and Analogies about CSRS and FERS Medical Retirement Benefits (64)
    • Federal Disability Judge-Made Decisions Quoted (35)
    • FERS Disability (10)
    • Important Cases, Legal Updates and/or the Current Process Waiting Time (49)
    • Life after Federal Disability Retirement (21)
    • LWOP and Sick Leave in OPM Disability (12)
    • Mental/Nervous Condition (49)
    • Miscellaneous (178)
    • OPM Disability & OWCP Workers Comp Filings (45)
    • OPM Disability & SSA Social Security Disability Benefits (40)
    • OPM Disability & VA Benefits (4)
    • OPM Disability Actors (287)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The Agency (54)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The Applicant (78)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The Attorney (55)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The Doctor (53)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The Human Resources Office (17)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The MSPB Administrative Judge (6)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The OPM Representatives (31)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The Others (9)
      • OPM Disability Actors – The Supervisor (13)
    • OPM Disability Administrative Law (Statutory and Non-Statutory Law) (13)
    • OPM Disability and a Hostile Working Environment (11)
    • OPM Disability Application (186)
      • OPM Disability Application – SF 3112 Disability Retirement Application Package (28)
      • OPM Disability Application – SF 3112A Applicant's Statement of Disability for CSRS and FERS (62)
      • OPM Disability Application – SF 3112B Supervisor’s Statement for CSRS and FERS (9)
      • OPM Disability Application – SF 3112C Physician's Statement for CSRS and FERS (15)
      • OPM Disability Application – SF 3112D Agency Certification of Reassignment and Accommodation Efforts for CSRS and FERS (7)
    • OPM Disability Process (159)
      • OPM Disability Process – 1st Stage: OPM Disability Application (35)
      • OPM Disability Process – 2nd Stage: OPM Reconsideration Stage (28)
      • OPM Disability Process – 3rd Stage: MSPB Stage (17)
      • OPM Disability Process – 4th Stage: Petition for Full Review at the MSPB (4)
      • OPM Disability Process – 5th Stage: Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (2)
    • OPM Disability Retirement & EEOC Complaints (4)
    • OPM Medical Questionnaire (8)
    • Post-Application Issues (19)
    • Pre-Application Considerations (430)
    • Professional & Expert Witnesses (5)
    • Reasonable Medical Treatment and Compliance Issues (6)
    • Reflections of an OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer (1,760)
    • Resigning or Being Separated From a Federal Agency for Medical Problems or Other Reasons (34)
    • SF 3112 Forms (10)
    • Specific Medical Conditions (28)
    • The Job of a Federal Disability Attorney (79)
    • Theory and Practice: Tips and Strategies for a Successful Application (202)
    • U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) (21)
    • U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) (78)
    • U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Disability Retirement (36)
    • Uncategorized (378)
    • When the OPM Application Is Approved (14)
    • When the OPM Application Is Denied (90)

OPM Federal Employee Disability Retirement: The Horizon of the “Other”

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Federal Disability Retirement Attorney

The horizon is that demarcation between earth and the heavens; in days of yore, it was the navigational calculus extracted from the curvature of the visible sea in determining distance, time, and the impending cliff over which the ship’s captain would fathom monsters of devouring delights.  It is where appearance emerges.

What is shown; what becomes visible to the naked eye; that which is unconcealed and revealed; what the “other” allows for, and manifests, is the horizon of personhood.  For some, the superficiality of one’s persona becomes evident quickly and early; others, boredom sets in after a few encounters; for a rare few, the horizon fails to unfold despite a lifetime of inquisitive hunting.

For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who are considering filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset, the question often entangles the time to judge the other’s horizon, when to emerge from the curvature of anonymity; and the timing of dissemination of information to the agency or the U.S.Postal Service.

In Naval warfare of days gone, it was the ability to view through the powerful monocular from the vantage point of the crow’s nest, which gave the strategic advantage when first sight of the enemy’s position and direction appeared at the horizon.

The revelation of one’s medical condition is likely to already have been a subject of whispered discussions at the workplace; but actually declaring to the Federal agency, its managers and supervisors, of the intent to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, is nevertheless somewhat of a “cat-and-mouse” play, where the bifurcating moment of significance is somehow delineated in that very admission of submission.

Preparing and formulating an effective Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS, CSRS or CSRS Offset takes time and care; the filing of it, a timing to take care.  Whether and when to inform the Federal agency or the U.S. Postal Service; obviously the filing itself will inform them; but as to whether to declare to the horizon of the other before appearing at that dividing line where earth and the heavens meet, is something which should be done with sage advice and a view towards legal implications.

Sincerely,

Robert R. McGill, Esquire

 

Filed under: Reflections of an OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer | Tagged: a fers postal medical retirement attorney, accommodation fers attorney, accredited fers medical attorney, advice of attorney about job offer light duty, air force civilian opm medical retirement attorney, alleged misconduct against disabled federal employee needs to contact fers disability retirement lawyer asap, american federal disability attorney, applying for opm medical retirement, attorney help for federal disability claims under opm retirement rules, attorney opm disability retirement, chicago opm fers lawyer, choosing an experienced attorney for disabled us postal service letter carrier, civil service disability retirement attorneys, cognitive disabilities fers employee attorney, considering hiring and owcp attorney or opm disability lawyer for disabling healch condition, considering the perspective of the office of personnel management, courteous and well-organized opm lawyer, csrs medical retirement attorney, disability insurance for federal employees through the office of personnel management, disability retirement csr, do I have to resign from postal service before filing for usps disability retirement?, dol employees with incapacities fers lawyer, eligibility rules us postal service disability retirement lawyer, emphysema usps disability retirement lawyer, ethical fers lawyer, experienced attorney for chronically ill employees working in the government sector, fed injury compensation for usps federal employees with experienced opm medical retirement lawyer, federal job proposed removal letter, federaldisabilitylawyer, fers attorney serving all across the nation, fers disability retirement attorney, fers restored earning capacity, finding an attorney for fers disability claims, government employee federal disability lawyer, harassment usps supervisors employee lawyer, health insurance and other benefits after fers disability retirement, help with the 3112a opm standard form, hiring an opm attorney when federal employee as some form of health incapacity, hostile environment usps fers lawyer, hostile work environment in the postal service, how about when you don’t qualify for limit duty in the postal service, how an usps attorney can help the federal employee with a disabling condition, how to fight a us postal service firing medically related issues, how to fill out ps form 3112a, how to sign up for early medical retirement usps, if denied owcp stress claim help from a leading fed attorney, injured postal employee attorney experienced with usps early out applications, lawyer blog: how to file for a usps medical retirement claim, lawyer federaldisability, lawyer for fers federal disability retirement benefits, leo agent medical retirement attorney, letter carrier disability, letter carrier with mental disabling conditions seeks postal attorney specialized in opm medical retirement, life after postal disability retirement, light duty accommodation fers attorney for us government workers, light duty fers attorney, limited duty legal counseling for usps attorney, long term stress leave lawyer fers employee, lwop disabling conditions usps fers lawyer, mail handler disability, medical claim federal postal employee attorney, medical claim leave request for stress with assistance of specialized usps lawyer, mental conditions fers compensation lawyer, meticulous fers attorney, motivated fers attorney, nj health pension lawyer under fers opm, office of personnel management medical retirement benefits, opm attorney explanation of fers medical pension payments from the office of personnel management, opm disability lawyer experienced with dealing with the office of personnel management, opm retirement lawyer with experience in postal or gov employees' mental impartment cases, owcp fers disability lawyer, owcp functional capacity evaluation failing attorney, owcp ill federal postal employee searching for the best opm lawyer, owcp medical, owcp medical disability lawyer, pension planning for disabling conditions usps lawyer, physical conditions in the federal employee opm attorney, poor health with government employees and fers disability attorney, postal attorney helping in cases of medical discrimination and lack of accommodation, postal disability doctors letters guide lines, postal employee claims for medical discrimination retirement lawyer, postal permanent work restrictions lawyer, postal service opm disability retirement lawyer, retirement for anxiety with fers attorney, rotator cuff opm medical pension lawyer, rules for owcp terminating benefits and what other option I have, searching for an owcp usps medical retirement lawyer, sincere opm lawyer, suspension while on sick leave federal employee attorney, taking an experienced usps lawyer aboard, the end goal of an opm medical retirement attorney, the important role of a fers disability retirement attorney, the opm medical retirement lawyer, top fers medical retirement lawyer, us postal service and long term disability lawyer, using an opm disability retirement lawyer, usps depression lawyer, usps disability retirement attorney, usps district reasonable accommodation lawyer, usps early out medical retirement buyout, usps employee disabling conditions attorney under opm laws, usps employees steps for filing work related injury for fers disability retirement, usps medical benefits lawyer, visual impairment driving license mail carrier attorney, what are the steps to file for retirement with the usps due to medical conditions, when to federal lawyer asks a question..., your postal service medical retirement attorney | Leave a comment »

  • More on CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement

    • eZineArticles.com Article: The 1 Year Statute of Limitations
    • Federal Disability Retirement Laws, Medical Conditions, and the Intersecting Complications with OWCP, Social Security and FERS & CSRS
    • Federal Disability Retirement: The Full Arsenal of Weapons
    • FedSmith.com Article: Revisiting "Accommodation"
    • FedSmith.com Article: Sometimes the Process is just as important as the Substance of an Argument
    • Latest PostalReporter.com Article: Causation in a Federal Disability Retirement Case
    • Understanding the Complexities of the Law
    • USPS Disability Blog: The National Reassessment Program, the Agency and the Worker
  • Other Resources for Federal and Postal Employees

    • Articles Published in the Postal Reporter
    • FAQs on OPM Disability Retirement
    • FERS Disability Attorney Profile at Lawyers.com
    • Main Website on Federal Disability Retirement
    • OPM Disability Blog
    • The Postal Service Disability Retirement Blog
  • Seven False Myths about OPM Disability Retirement

    1) I have to be totally disabled to get Postal or Federal disability retirement.
    False: You are eligible for disability retirement so long as you are unable to perform one or more of the essential elements of your job.  Thus, it is a much lower standard of disability. 

    2) My injury or illness has to be job-related.
    False: You can get disability even if your condition is not work related.  If your medical condition impacts your ability to perform any of the core elements of your job, you are eligible, regardless of how or where your condition occurred.

    3) I have to quit my federal job first to get disability.
    False: In most cases, you can apply while continuing to work at your present job, to the extent you are able.  

    4) I can't get disability if I suffer from a mental or nervous condition.
    False: If your condition affects your job performance, you can still qualify. Psychiatric conditions are treated no differently from physical conditions.

    5) Disability retirement is approved by DOL Workers Comp.
    False: It's the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) the federal agency that administers and approves disability for employees at the US Postal Service or other federal agencies.

    6) I can wait for OPM disability retirement for many years after separation.
    False: You only have one year from the date of separation from service - otherwise, you lose your right forever.

    7) If I get disability retirement, I won't be able to apply for Scheduled Award (SA).
    False: You can get a Scheduled Award under the rules of OWCP even after you get approved for OPM disability retirement.
  • Calendar

    April 2021
    S M T W T F S
     123
    45678910
    11121314151617
    18192021222324
    252627282930  
    « Mar    
  • Top Posts

    • OPM Medical Retirement under FERS: Routines
    • OPM Disability Retirement Application: Denials for the Unrepresented
    • SF 3112
    • OPM Disability Retirement: Disability Retirement & Standard Forms
    • FERS & CSRS Federal Employee Medical Disability Program: Potluck
    • OPM Disability Retirement under FERS: The Choice
    • FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Of the Charmed, Charted or Chartered Life
    • Postal & Federal Disability Retirement: OPM’s Characterization
    • Federal Disability Retirement under FERS: OPM Accepted Medical Conditions
    • Federal & Postal Worker Disability Retirement: The Interrupted Cadence
  • Archives

Blog at WordPress.com. WP Designer.