"We've had a dramatic increase in the number of applications for retirement," Nicholas Scoppetta, the Fire Department commissioner, said yesterday.
Now, pensioners are being asked to file new applications for retirement benefits, this time only to the amount of between 500 and 1,000 hryvnyas.
The Fire Department, which usually receives 40 applications for retirement each month, has been receiving about 40 a week since Jan . 1 he said.
At the Railroad Retirement Board office here, employees working without pay are permitted to process new unemployment claims, but cannot touch applications for retirement or survivors' benefits.
Federal employees can help shorten the time it takes to process their applications for retirement benefits, long a sore point in the workforce, by preparing well in advance, the official overseeing that process has said.
Eventually the fumes and dust caused severe asthma symptoms, so a Fire Department physician placed him on light duty while his application for disability retirement is being processed, Mr. Finley said.
In what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, U.S. Army National Guard veteran William Cowles is challenging the illegal denial of his application for medical retirement and asserts that the Army hastily discharged him based on an erroneous diagnosis of adjustment disorder when he should have been medically retired for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Thorpe Park bosses say they are considering legal action over a planning application for a retirement home complex next to the park.
Comorbidity (i.e. severe consequences of cancer, cardiopulmonary diseases, mental/psychological diseases), pregnancy, difficulties in reading and writing the Danish language or application for early retirement or "occupational rehabilitation" (reassignment to another type of occupation economic subsidised, a unique Danish constellation).
