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Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: The Unique Story
This is a world which requires conformity and uniformity; eccentricity is a leisure which few can afford, and as the world operates on a factory-like assembly line, where productivity is the measure of...
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CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Supervisors, Performance, and...
In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS (although the latter is increasingly becoming a...
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Early Medical Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: SF 3112A, SF 3112B, SF...
In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, the Federal or Postal employee will be asked to...
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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Purpose of...
Standard Forms represent the Federal Government’s attempt to streamline and create efficiency. For FERS & CSRS employees who are seeking to obtain Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the...
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Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Importance of Logical Sequence
In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, it is important to recognize the logical...
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Federal Disability Retirement: SF 3112A, the Applicant’s Statement of Disability
Each genre retains its own internal customs, traditions and acceptable characteristics which, in their idiosyncratic ways, defines for itself why the specific genre is distinctively different from...
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Federal Employee’s Disability Retirement: The Non-standard Approach to...
Standard Forms are created, produced and promulgated precisely for their stated and intended purpose: to streamline and conventionalize (yes, that is really a proper word, and spellcheck did not put a...
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OPM Disability Retirement: Disability Retirement & Standard Forms
Standard Forms are intended to restrain, contain and standardize; it is meant to make you believe that if you violate the “fence” around the physical form itself, or fail to answer specifically the...
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Federal and Postal Disability Retirement: The Genre of the Narrative
Different genres purportedly possess internal mechanisms and tools of the trade which distinguish one art form from another; thus, fiction writers use various forms which, in the eyes of the...
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OPM Disability Retirement: The Autobiographical Slice
Every story is unique. Uniqueness is a characteristic of each human life story, precisely because there are no two sets of facts which are identical. Assuming that parallel universes do not exist,...
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Early Medical Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: Accuracy & Creativity
Accuracy and creativity are not mutually exclusive approaches; one often thinks that the former relates to more ‘technical’, non-fiction genres, while the latter encompasses the areas of fiction and...
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Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: The Automatic Pilot
Then there is the story of the individual who was driving an RV, set the acceleration mechanism on “auto”, and left the driver’s seat to go and make some coffee. Obviously, one need not have too great...
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CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Platonic and Other Forms
Forms are interesting conceptual constructs: They are created for ease of use; yet, concurrently, they contain, restrict, and by all appearances, limit the ability to go beyond the “form”. Thus it is...
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Federal Disability Retirement: The Problem of Coordination
The world of language is a peculiar universe of artifice; while comparisons to other primates may provide indicators for the origin and foundational beginnings for the evolution of language in order to...
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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Narrative of...
Often, when one has been embroiled in a prolonged battle with another person, an organization, agency, etc., the embattled state itself takes on a life of its own, and decisions which should be based...
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CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Narrative & the Audience
Anton Chekhov’s short story, “Grief”, is often accompanied by a subtitle, variously interpreted as, “To whom shall I share my grief?” It is both about the need inherent in human nature to tell one’s...
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Federal and Postal Medical Retirement: Reassignment Considerations
In considering filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, the issue of possible reassignment will arise — normally as a...
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CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Refinements
One often hears of a “refined” or “cultured” person; such a description often provokes an image of one who has had the leisure time in order to engage in the arts and of higher society; and the word...
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CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Refinements, Redux
A “refined sense of taste”; refineries which take crude oil and extract and leave out the waste; perfecting and polishing that which is roughly hewn. What always needs to be focused upon, first and...
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Federal Gov. and USPS Disability Retirement: The Story Genre
There is quite obviously a human need to relate the narrative; of one’s community events, tragedies and triumphs; from the days of cave paintings to rote retelling of the group’s identity and character...
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