While the Office of Personnel Management issues template approvals and denials, what must the individual applicant who receives such a template denial, do?
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” 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”.
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The problems inherent in filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS are multi-fold and multi-tiered.
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For a lawyer , it is indeed the “lost cause” which is the most challenging of cases.
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Most doctors are unfamiliar with the process of obtaining Federal Disability Retirement under FERS or CSRS , but are more often than not familiar with the process, procedures, and correlative headaches associated with Worker’s Comp benefits .
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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.
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I still get periodic telephone calls with much misinformation, mixing terms applied to FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement with “Department of Labor Retirement” or Worker’s Comp retirement.
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The medical condition known as “Fibromyalgia” is analogous to the manner in which Federal and Postal employees approach the decision-making process in filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS & CSRS.
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