Federal Disability Retirement attorney Chris Attig announces the Firm’s success in securing disability retirement benefits for a FERS employee of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) who was severely disabled in the line of duty.
Federal Disability Retirement Attorney Chris Attig discusses what conditions you should include on your application for FERS/CSRS disability retirement.
This entry lists the specific forms a FERS or CSRS federal employee is required to submit to their employing Agency and/or the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in an application for disability retirement.
MSPB Attorney Chris Attig discusses what a Federal Agency must prove to remove an employee for medical inability to perform the functions of a job.
Can you use medical evidence, developed after your separation from civil service, to establish entitlement to disability retirement? A Federal Circuit decision says yes. In Reilly v. Office of Personnel Management, 571 F.3d 1372 (Fed. Cir 2009), the Federal Circuit Court held that post-separation medical evidence can be probative of whether the appellant became disabled while serving in a FERS or CSRS position “[w]here proximity in time, lay testimony, or some other evidence provides the requisite link to the [...]
Attorney Chris Attig, an attorney handling Federal Disability Retirement applications and VA Disability Compensation, reports on a recent MSPB Decision that may give some Veterans who were denied Federal Employee Disability Retirement an opportunity to reopen their appeal.
Federal and Postal Disability Retirement attorney Chris Attig explains when and how an applicant for disability retirement can recover his or her attorney fees from OPM.
Chris Attig, an MSPB and Federal Disability Retirement attorney with the Attig Law Firm, explains what evidence is needed to prove mental incompetence was the reason for a late-filed application for Federal Disability Retirement.
The Federal employee or postal worker applying for FERS or CSRS federal disability retirement has thirty (30) days from receipt of the OPM reconsideration to file an MSPB appeal challenging OPM’s denial of federal disability retirement Benefits.
Often, the federal employee or postal worker who cannot or has not hired an attorney runs the risk of missing this deadline if their medical condition worsens and hospitalizes them. Now, the MSPB loves it deadlines, and will find any missed deadline as good enough reason [...]
Can absence, alone, be enough to qualify a Postal or Federal Employee for FERS or CSRS disability retirement through OPM?
Generally, no. In many situations, a Postal worker or Federal employee’s medical condition is so severe that they cannot even attempt the attendance required of them. In this cases, the employee’s absence from work due to a medical condition will be a factor in deciding whether the federal disability retirement applicant is eligible for disability retirement benefits. However, there will usually need to [...]
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