forms used for federal workers disability retirement

OPM Form SF 3112C and the Sufficiency of the Physician’s Statement

Posted onAugust 29, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Confusing necessity and sufficiency is always a precarious matter. That which is necessary may not be sufficient for a given purpose, and failure in understanding such a fundamental distinction can be fatal to a Federal Disability Retirement claim. SF 3112C requires that a physician complete and provide essential medical information in the pursuance of a Federal Disability Retirement application. The form itself — SF 3112C — is the vehicle by which the medical documentation is obtained. […] Read More …

Informational OPM Forms (SF 3107) versus Specific Content OPM Forms (SF 3112)

Posted onAugust 20, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Categories are important in order to properly bifurcate, distinguish, identify and comprehend for effective satisfaction and completion. If such differentiated distinctions are not clearly understood, one can easily be lulled into responding to a specific-content question as if it is merely “informational” in nature. Thus, for the Postal and Federal employee who is formulating responses to Standard Forms for purposes […] Read More …

FERS Disability Necessary Forms: OPM SF 3112 & 3107

Posted onAugust 19, 2014March 7, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

All SF Standard Forms issued by Federal agencies must be distinguished by the specific content of information requested. Thus, for the Federal and Postal employee who desires to file for the benefit of OPM Disability Retirement, the two primary series of OPM (the acronym for the “U.S. Office of Personnel Management”) forms […] Read More …

SF 3112 and SF 3107

Posted onAugust 18, 2014March 14, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Standard Forms tend to require tailored responses. That is precisely what it is meant to do. The very appearance of a Standard Form, or of any forms provided and required by the Federal Government, is intended to specifically contain and constrain responses, as well as an attempt to target a wide range of the population of ages and education groups. What statutes, laws and regulations were promulgated by the formulation of the form; the history behind the legislative intent of the form; […] Read More …

SF 3112

Posted onAugust 16, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Standard Forms are a necessary part of life. Bureaucracies streamline for efficiency of services; the question of whether such efficiency is for the benefit of an applicant to a Federal agency, or to ease the workload of the agency and its employees, is ultimately a fatuous question: as common parlance would sigh with resignation, “it is what it is”. For the Federal and Postal employee […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Platonic and Other Forms

Posted onMay 6, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Forms are interesting conceptual constructs: They are created for ease of use; yet, concurrently, they contain, restrict, and by all appearances, limit the ability to go beyond the “form”. Thus it is with Plato’s philosophical proposition of Forms — they represent the […] Read More …

forms used for federal workers disability retirement

Informational OPM Forms (SF 3107) versus Specific Content OPM Forms (SF 3112)

FERS Disability Necessary Forms: OPM SF 3112 & 3107

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Platonic and Other Forms

Federal Employee’s Disability Retirement: The Non-standard Approach to Standard Forms

Federal Disability Retirement Attorney’s blog: The Importance of Coordination

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Purpose of Standard Forms

Early Medical Retirement for Disabled Federal Workers: SF 3112A, SF 3112B, SF 3112C & SF 3112D