Last Updated on July 19, 2010
In preparing, formulating & filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS, one must fill out the various “forms“: SF 3107 with schedules A, B & C under FERS (for CSRS, SF 2801 with schedules A, B & C); as well as SF 3112 A – D. These forms are necessary in filing a Federal Disability Retirement application (as well as some which are not listed here). Along with these Standard Forms (thus, the “SF”), one must attach supporting documentation to be eligible for Federal Disability Retirement benefits. However, all applicants must be fully aware that the Standard Forms neither explain, nor necessarily “follow”, the expansive laws which govern Federal Disability Retirement.
Forms are created and published by bureaucrats who are neither aware of, nor are informed about, statutes, regulations or cases which define, refine or otherwise expand upon the complex laws which govern Federal Disability Retirement law. As such, they are the “bare bones”, skeletal requirements. In filling out such forms, therefore, one does so without any guidance or knowledge by the mere reading of the “instructions” on the forms. As such, one should “beware” in trying to complete any of the Standard Forms when preparing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire