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The Office of Personnel Management essentially renders both approvals and denials of a Federal Disability Retirement application with a “template” approach .

Language is the playground of the Attorney .

” Accommodation ” is a legal term of art.

In filing an application for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, there are many questions that are posed for the person who is just being introduced to the concept of potentially filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, and many of the sub-topical concepts are often “counter-intuitive”.

The problems inherent in filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS are multi-fold and multi-tiered.

The problem with the use of templates is that they are, over time and overusage, predictable; being predictable, they become ineffective.

By all accounts, the amount of snow which has hit the D.C. & surrounding metropolitan area constitutes a record amount.

Many times, I will put on a case at the Merit Systems Protection Board, and because of the strength of the case, the Representative from the Office of Personnel Management (right now, because of a shortage of personnel, there are only 4 at the MSPB level) will reverse course and grant the disability retirement before the Administrative Judge renders a decision on the case.

The Postal Service is especially guilty of this, but many other Federal (non-Postal) agencies are also “negligent” on the issue of keeping an injured worker on the rolls for years on end.

The lack of cooperation from a treating doctor, who is asked to provide a medical narrative report for a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS, may be based upon one of several factors: