While the Office of Personnel Management issues template approvals and denials, what must the individual applicant who receives such a template denial, do?
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”.
I am often asked whether or not a medical report from the “specialist” will have a greater impact than a family doctor.
The problem with the use of templates is that they are, over time and overusage, predictable; being predictable, they become ineffective.
Law is an imperfect science; indeed, one could dispute the ascribing of law as a “science” at all, except in a generic, loose sense of the word.
I recently wrote an article on FedSmith.com concerning the legal process of filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under FERS or CSRS, and a reader posted a comment implying and suggesting a lack of understanding about a benefit which would allow for payment of 40% of the average of one’s highest three consecutive years, and in addition, to allow for that annuitant to make up to 80% of what the former federal position currently pays.
By all accounts, the amount of snow which has hit the D.C. & surrounding metropolitan area constitutes a record amount.