You vets can hire a MSPB lawyer. These guys usually know their business. They don't throw you to the wolves like the union guys. You are paying them so they do fight for you. Unless you punch your supervisor in the nose in front of ten witnesses you should be able to keep your job.

To Poster 'ME', You need to get an x-ray of your hips while standing. This will clearly show if there is a leg length discrepancy. One of your hips will be higher than the other. You can have this done at a chiropractor's ofice.

bg, check your owcp benefit statement, are your health insurance coverage still being taken out of your checks? I would start there and then contact OPM and ask them

Barb

ECAB is a reveiw of the written record only......before you file your appeal make sure everything you need is in your file, regardless of what your CE says they must accept the information and place it in your file.

I filed for reconsideration appeal on amt. of SA. This was denied a review. The only recourse is ECAB appeal. Anyone have any luck getting a review thru this versus reconsideration? Also what takes place during this appeal, do I take part in this by telephone or letter? I feel that I have a legit appeal and my CE has denied review. It says no new evidence may be submitted to the board. Any input appreciated!

Handling It..11257.. i hope i am understanding you right... i put in for consequantial injuries.. OWCP requested more med info... my dr submitted it and stated.. due to injury to my Lumbar condition and due to my inablility to walk in a erect postition there was dramaticaly compensation of mechanisms on my lower extremity... in conclusion my lumbar spine was used to compensate for my primary injury which created my limb length descrepancy and pelvic tilt condition... he states in more detail but you get the idea...

OWCP had their district med advisor review my file and he states this is not possible to determine based on the med evidence.. he recommended that OWCP refer me to an orthopedic surgeon for evaluation.. which of course they did and he said i suffer from chronic cervical/lumbosacral sydrome and anxiety disorder but his examination did not reveal any evidence of leg length discrepancy or neurocompressive abnormalities related to the upper or lower extremeties.. he goes onto explain the both legs are equal findings.. the letter states my dr is dr mchugh who is not my dr... i know my legs are of different lengths and the second opinion dr measured me real fast and the tape measure wasn't even on my leg.. it just seemed like he wanted to make sure the legs measured equal... i know i have nerves in my back which are affecting my legs.. the podiatrist i am seeing is the first dr who has been able to make a difference for me.. little things he has told me to do have helped... what he has told me has made sense to most of my problems.. my poditrist has said this is a permanat condition and to face it, i will never be able to do my job again... i knew this but did not want to believe it... but when a dr is blunt with you, you finally accept it... course OWCP doesn't want to accept it... so OWCP letter states my recurrence is denied.. i stated it was a consequantial injury, i am not sure if this matters... are you saying i should file a ca-2? for this? and/or should i appeal the decision also?

Thanks

Why are they doing it? This is why: "make work jobs ".

If you are still able to work in some capacity, my understanding is that they are supposed to try to find you a postal job you can do, and if they can't, then they are supposed to help you find a non-postal job. If I was you, I would not retire if I was you. Make them do their job.

Well I just was informed by another injured employee in another office that the reasessment team was going to visit our office again...supposed to be in another phase of the program....I also talked to the city carrier union president who just happens to work in my office and he was telling me about a meeting he went to Thursday....he told me my best bet was to retire ...by the way I am an injured Rural carrier on a ghost route who works in one of the make work jobs that has been occupied by an injured rural carrier since sometime in the early 1990's...two before me that were converted to clerks and sent to the processing plant...I have been in the job since 2001....I reached MMI in 2003 and have been on the ghost route since then.....I work 40 hrs. per week....I am 55yrs. old and have 31 yrs. in so I can retire but why? I am still able to work...and even according my coworkers who are clerks and by my supervisior I am needed and really help them a lot....what is going to happen as far as my being made to retire? Anybody out there who has been thru this? I want to retire when I want to not when they want me to...and if it means going to another offic, or even another city or state..I will go....I am still able to work with restrictions....just not able to carry a route or case mail....what are my options?

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I have been out on owcp for the post office what happens to my health coverage after 1 yr being out of work please let me know. I have medical bills for family coming back stating not covered thanks

exarmygal: Ref: 11250

Definitely fight back real hard! As a VET, you will be surprised how they will work with you!

Me: if they are kicking back your causal injury, then just submit a ca-2 for a new one. stop wasting time playing their game. either way, it's an injury. when your dr. submits his narrative stating job aggravates and accelerates the injury, they'll accept it. just my thoughts...

mail-lady: you stated: "just been approved." i assume it was in sept. that means you have until december of the FOLLOWING year, not one year, to file for reimbursements for milege, anything you have paid, co-payments, etc. your pharmacy has a printout they can give you. your ins. will be reimbursed by owcp. send them the first page of your acceptance letter. copy that page and maybe have it with you in your purse. people that need reimbursement, it will come in handy for them.
MMI means your maximmum medical improvement. no less than one year from surgery or date of injury, i believe. it means you are as good as you are going to get, and you could get worse, could need continuous pain management care, etc. may not need more surgery, per se. a lot of people once they receive surgery, just stop care. but there are still a lot of things in the care giving field that helps with pain. i elect not to take pain meds, and use pain patches, trigger point injections, therapy, etc. but that's just me. it keeps your claim open and you under a dr's care. you just don't need a surgeon. a pain management physician really cares about making you as pain free as possible. at least mine does. that's what they do.

what happens if you were injured in 2004, went back to work 4 hours a day the other 4 you collect thru OWCP at the rate of pay when you were injured... the 4hrs you are working you get the pay raises... po walks you out the door... now, do you get paid 8 hrs at the rate you were making when you got hurt thru OWCP? this doesn't seem fair...

mail lady. Ellis Clinic is in Oklahoma City, I know people travel a long ways to see this Dr for their impairment ratings. 810 manual, states that the paid of rate to use for an Schedule award is, date of injury, date of reoccurance, date disability began. I was told by national APWU, That the date of injury is used, unless you go off work after being injured, then return to work awaiting surgery, and then go back off work after surgery. Hope this helped. CA-7 page 2 is where the USPS provides OWCP with your earings.

exarmygal, I was just terminated also, I was fired for conduct unbecoming, because I was off with a well documented on the job injury, that was remanded back to my nasty claims examiner and I was also a realtor who had commisions from previous sales, with statements from my boss and another agent that they covered me while I was off work, they are dirty and will stoop to any level to get rid of us, I also had received a few days earlier a letter of reassemnet for rehab jobs, with possible retirement or just getting rid of us, we are a liability in their eyes, and I think there should be a class action for the crap they put us through, good luck, also I hear they fight our unemployment and that if you are terminated for conduct related offenses that you might not qualify for unemployment, ever wonder how many folks just commit suicide,

-What is an MMI?

-Where is the Ellis clinic?

-I have not missed any days of work since DOI 2/07, just been part-time. Therefore, if I have been working and received COLAS, shouldn't my owcp pay reimbursement go up, too? Is it reported when CA-7s are submitted to DOL? I am of the very few who are lucky enough to have a nice supervisor and station manager who have utilized my abilities in a positive way. I will not be off after surgery. I will work one-handed. I am truly grateful. I do have a not-so-nice case mgr at DOL who does not like talking to me, even though I am super nice. I simply ask questions she does not know the answers to, which upsets her.

-Thanks