That's what I was thinking also. Our situations are a little bit different than other federal employees. I was denied quite a while back and I keep thinking getting close who knows. I found a group on Facebook that follows OPM civil service disability retirement. I noticed the timeline seem to vary but are taking quite a while. But I think our timelines will take even longer same reason because we have to be denied and then get accepted later.I’m assuming cases where public law has to be used will take twice that long. I’m guessing the first go around (when it will be denied) will take the time mentioned in the article. Then it has to go through the process again and trigger public law. (I’m new to the process, so this is just speculation…)