FERS Disability: limitations to overcome in the opm disability forms

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

August 20, 2014

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 […]

FERS Disability Necessary Forms: OPM SF 3112 & 3107

August 19, 2014

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 […]

SF 3112 and SF 3107

August 18, 2014

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; […]

SF 3112

August 16, 2014

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 […]

OPM Disability Retirement: The Gargantuan Bureaucracy

August 21, 2013

Gargantuan; Leviathan-like; Mammoth; Elephantine; such descriptive words at once describe and simultaneously belie the true nature of an entity, especially when it comes to an administrative bureaucracy at the Federal level. Agencies are organic structures, […]

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Platonic and Other Forms

May 6, 2013

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 […]

FERS Disability

Tag: limitations to overcome in the opm disability forms

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

FERS Disability Necessary Forms: OPM SF 3112 & 3107

OPM Disability Retirement: The Gargantuan Bureaucracy

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Platonic and Other Forms

OPM Disability Retirement: Preempting Anticipated Problems

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: A Form and Its Impact

OPM Disability Retirement Application: Starting with Basics

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: Forms & the Total Picture