Blog Posts in 2008

When an employee applies for disability retirement under CSRS or FERS, one of the elements that the employee must show is that the Agency is unable to ...

You receive the letter from OPM, open it, and find that OPM denied your application for disability retirement benefits under FERS/CSRS. Chances are, ...

Earlier, I posted about the process to seek waiver (or reduction of repayment schedule) of an overpayment of retirement benefits. To give you an idea ...

How much will my disability retirement annuity be? Generally speaking, your FERS disability retirement annuity will be 60% of your high-3 average ...

Earlier this fall, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008. The Act takes effect on January 1, 2009, but most attorneys ...

Often we see letters from OPM denying an employee’s request for disability retirement based on the fact that there is no evidence that the disability ...

In a decision issued July 3, 2008, the full Merit Systems Protection Board reversed the removal of its employee George Bruton. This case is ...

After a full day of hearing, and 3 months of negotiations, the Law Firm of Eric L. Pines, PLLC, secured a very favorable settlement agreement from a ...

Over the coming weeks, we will be posting a series of articles about Whistle-blower reprisal appeals before the MSPB. Whistle-blower appeals are some ...