Posts Tagged CSRS

FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: Connections

It is the logical and sequential connections between independent facts, which provide the foundational basis in "proving" a thing.  One can infer or imply; it is indeed possible to extrapolate; but to leave such cognitively-arduous exercise to someone at the Office of Personnel Management is merely to cast it to a chance occurrence.  In preparing, [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: Inconsistencies and the Perfect Case

Perhaps there will never be the "perfect" case in a FERS or CSRS Disability Retirement application, and one should not expect to find one.  There are "near-perfections" and ones which cannot possibly be denied by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.  But it is the imperfect ones — the ones which might be consider tenuous [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: SSDI and the Pursuance Thereof

How aggressively one should pursue SSDI concurrently as one is preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is a question which one is often confronted with during the process of filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits.  If one is under CSRS, then the question is a [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: From the Agency to OPM

Perhaps they are trying to be helpful; but, more likely, the Agency through which a Federal Disability Retirement application is routed, before being forwarded to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, first to Boyers, Pennsylvania, then on to Washington, D.C., is merely acting (or reactively conducting its day to day affairs, as is often the [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: Solutions

In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, it is important to focus upon the solutions to the multiple obstacles which necessarily accompany the preparation of a Federal Disability Retirement packet.  Part of the inherent problem for the Federal or Postal worker who is contemplating filing [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: The Easy Case

Life presents conundrums; puzzles exist to be solved, but few attempt to understand the foundational precepts which need to be discovered and applied; ergo, Aristotle remains an esoteric author of antiquity, to be rediscovered and in whom delight approaches an enduring mystery.  In every endeavor of that vast designation identified as "life", difficulties abound, challenges [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: The Supportive Physician

Perspectives vary; varying perspectives often lead to conflict; and conflict represents the divergent paths which pursue different directions, or follow a parallel route.  Physicians who have been practicing medicine for a number of years quite often see the therapeutic benefit of employment, and the negative impact of being identified as "disabled", with progressive physical manifestations [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: Agency Self-Interest

Self-interest is an interesting characteristic to observe — one which everyone possesses, but only the obtuse deny.  In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, be aware that the Agency has its own self-interest.  If the stated interest is couched in [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: Reminding the Agency of the Administrative Process

In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether the Federal or Postal employee is under the Federal Employee’s Retirement System (FERS) or the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), a reminder is often necessary to the agency which retains the Federal or Postal employee on the [...]

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FERS & CSRS Federal Disability Retirement from the Office of Personnel Management: Word Usage

In any endeavor involving a "paper presentation" to a third party, it is important to be fully aware of word-choice and word-usage.  An overuse and overabundance of descriptive adjectives can undermine the efficacy of a presentation; the flow of sentences, the logical connections between statements, and a conclusion which follows from the major and minor [...]

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