Comments for USPS Disability Retirement

Comment on The U.S. Postal Service and Federal Disability Retirement: The National Reassessment Program, the Agency and the Worker by Belle Joco

Belle Joco — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:49:10 +0000

I was sent home by the management 2 weeks ago due to no work available for me. I have bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and bilateral foreamrs tendonitis. Will I be qualified to apply for Disability Retirement? Im on modified status, so what is my chance of getting approved when I apply for Federal Disability Retirement? Whom can I get in touch with?

Comment on The U.S. Postal Service and Federal Disability Retirement: The National Reassessment Program, the Agency and the Worker by Cynthia Weaver

Cynthia Weaver — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:26:28 +0000

I went out on disability retirement after a qualifying back condition as well as CTS. Now as I face my 62nd birthday next summer, I am fear-stricken with how I am to survive when they “adjust” my annuity to reflect what will then be only 18.5 years of service.After they deduct my family health plan, i’ll get next to nothing. No way would I normally have been able to retire at age 62 had I continued to be able to work. My question is can I go back to work before I reach that age and try to hold down my PTR clerk job? Is worker’s comp required to find me another part-time postions here if my job is filed now? And why was I not entitled to an award for my conditions? The back injury was aggravated by my years on the job, and the cts was directly caused by it. I am under Fers..
I am asking why they are only required to cover me until I am 62 when normal retirement age is 65?

Comment on Postal Supervisors by Candace Scott

Candace Scott — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:07:02 +0000

Hello, this particular post has hit a chord with me. My husband has been off work for over a year, due to severe depression which was caused and exacerbated by working 2nd shift. He has requested a transfer from the plant manager, to a letter carrier position in the town we live in. It’s a 2 day a week position, and would bring in considerably less income from a 40 hour a week job, but for his health we felt this would be perfect. The postmaster here in our community worked very hard to hire my husband. The plant manager REFUSED the transfer. One of the reasons that he gave was that he felt that my husband was deceiving the postmaster, and not telling him that he’d been off of work for 6 months. The postmaster wrote a note for my husband informing the plant manager that it simply was not true. We’ve had an EEO mediation where my husbands managers stated that they would reveal nothing from the EEO mediation. Now, not only have they revealed information, but they falsified the information to put themselves in a better light, and are using it in disciplinary fashion against him for his attendance. My husband was on the verge of taking his own life, he was self mutilating. We have sent letter after letter from his doctor requesting accommodation. All to no avail. All they would have to do is transfer him. Also we have a 6 year old daughter we support, and I’m disabled from childhood. We are having to file bankruptcy, we almost lost our home. Both my husband and I need medication, and our insurance has just lapsed from his extended absence from work. In fact I was hospitalized for 8 days in May. 1/2 of that time in critical care. I need additional medication, but we cannot afford to buy it. The abuse that this plant manager has perpetrated of his position of power is intolerable. The sad part is, now my husband is filing for Disability Retirement. Apparently the plant manager that USPS funds are better spent paying my husband disability wages, rather than his hourly wage working for the USPS, filling a position.

Comment on National Reassessment Program by Mike Pozonski

Mike Pozonski — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:51:20 +0000

I have been given a jo offer of 45 MINUTES A WEEk. Of course it is at the outer part of the 50 mile limit. A little late, but I am applying for Disability Retirement. Do you know of any others like this? They appear to be giving me 45 minutes to avoid the OWCP retraining and placement. The injury I have will make it difficult to place me. I do have an LWEC for 20 hrs per week (4hrs per day). Rediculous but SNAFU.

Comment on The Postal Worker Today: Choices, FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement, and Protecting one’s Future by Renee

Renee — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:32:15 +0000

How do I go about filling for Federal Disability Retirement.

Comment on US Postal Disability Retirement: Making the Right Decisions before Ending up At the Merit Systems Protection Board by virginia

virginia — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:18:58 +0000

i work in chgo. all job related injuries;in 1999 from constant work with lifting trays i developed carpal tunnel in both wrist; in 2002 i injured myself;2 herniated disc, in 2007 i injured myself;cubical tunnel in rt arm. i had a modified job that worked, but because of the nrp i was reassigned, the new assignment caused me to reinjure myself and now i’m off for six months. i have filed for social security and i’m filing for fers retirement disability, my doctor and supervisor is in agreement with me, but i’m afraid i’ll mess up my part.

Comment on Why Is the Postal Worker Being Removed From Service? by Sandra L. Kent

Sandra L. Kent — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:43:57 +0000

I have a brother who is went out in 2008 Yes 2008 who was in the Postal Service due to having a stroke while on the job. He went into the ER and the paperwork from there and his job has fallen through. Figuring that he would be back to work before long, he then had to have an operation on his good leg and this set him back. He’s 53 and under the FERS system. He has no money coming in and just about out in the street. Is there anybody out there that can move the paperwork he does have or give him the information needed to retire on a disability? Please help me help him.

S.Kent

Comment on The U.S. Postal Service and Federal Disability Retirement: The National Reassessment Program, the Agency and the Worker by Sherry Morrish

Sherry Morrish — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:36:00 +0000

I have been waiting for a reply from OPM post-retirement since Feb 2009. I have emailed, called, written letters, and sent requested information in a timely fashion.
My annuity I believe is 250. less than I am entitled.

Comment on Federal Disability Retirement and the Postal Employee Today by Joseph S Parisi

Joseph S Parisi — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:46:19 +0000

Dear Sir,
I am a Postal Letter Carrier with 30 years of Federal Service. Since Last April I have been suffering from an old on the job Frature of some thorasic vertabraies. I have filed a recurrence, however, the DOL has draged there feet and I am now being send for an independent medical exam. The problem is from degenerative changes for the worst and after some medical procetures to releive the pain it is only getting worse. I had no intentions of retiering until I had the 41+11 years to receive the 80%. I have been without pay for about a year shortly. And do hope to get my pay after seeing the IME. Were do I go from hear? I dont want to retiere at this time, however, it dose not seem likely I will be able to. What to I do? Were do I go? ETC, ETC,

I can be reached at 978 828 8341 or E=Mail Cougar55@verizon.net My Sincere Appreciation

Joseph S Parisi