Federal Employee Disability Retirement Law

MSPB: Disability Retirement Update On March 1, 2022, the Senate has finally confirmed two members for the MSPB, thereby allowing for a quorum to exist.  While the nominee for the Chair is still awaiting Senate confirmation, since a quorum now exists without the Chair, the MSPB can now proceed.  As many have already noted, the two members must now begin the daunting task of deciding upon a 5+ year backlog of almost 4,000 cases.   The non-existence of a 3-Judge Panel at the MSPB has been an untenable position impacting thousands of Federal and Postal employees for too long.  Whether a

 Covid-19: OPM Update The Federal Government is operational; the U.S. Office of Personnel Management continues to make decisions on Federal Disability Retirement cases, whether at the initial level of determination or at the Reconsideration Stage. Further, because Federal Disability Retirement hearings at the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board have always been conducted by telephone, there has been minimal interruption in Federal Disability Retirement appeals which have been filed with the MSPB.  Covid-19 has had a devastating impact upon the United States in so many ways — of the human toll; the death toll; the economic devastation; the strain upon the