Hubbard v. Merit Systems Protection Board

FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

The Merit Systems Protection Board (“Board”) dismissed, as untimely filed, an appeal from the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”)’s denial of an application for a federal employee’s disability retirement annuity benefits. We affirm.

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Following her resignation “[f]or health related reasons” as a secretary after more than twenty years of federal service, the appellant Linda S. Hubbard applied to OPM for disability retirement. OPM denied those benefits because Hubbard had “not established that [she had] a disabling medical condition that meets the criteria for…