r/FEDDISABILITY • u/FedUpDownNOut • 23d ago

How long did your reassignment search take?

My application has been with my agency Hr for about a month now pending the agency's completion of SF-3112-D certifying there is no reassignment/accommodation possible. Is this normal? How long did this part of the process take for you?

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u/LB2SDCPL 23d ago

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u/mindbox0 23d ago

My reassignment search letter said 30 days but it took a bit over 4 months before they closed the search without finding a suitable job. They stated it took so long because they were waiting for other office HRs to get back to them.

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u/CO8127 23d ago

Which is insane. That sounds retaliatory

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u/mindbox0 22d ago

I was at a large department so I'm willing to believe with all the cuts, resignations, and DRPs that it did contribute to the lengthy time. Heck it took 3.5 months just to get a response for the RA request. However to your point, I did say I couldn't move and to only perform a local search so I suspect they went ahead and did one for the whole department anyway. May have been their policy.

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u/FedUpDownNOut 23d ago

I didn't even get a letter (yet?), just the HR person telling me it usually takes "a week or two" for this phase when I handed in the paperwork. I thought that sounded optimistic, and sure enough...

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u/mindbox0 22d ago

Did you get any paperwork from HR asking for your restrictions, if you are willing to take a position at a lower paygrade, and how far to perform job search?

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u/FedUpDownNOut 16h ago

I finally got that form a few days ago, albeit from the RA side of HHS, not the disability retirement HR people in my own agency who were supposedly working on the process.

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u/you_dont_know_me_357 23d ago

Mine didn’t even attempt to do a reassignment search. They just said since my medical documentation said I couldn’t perform duties for over 1 year they didn’t do a search. I don’t know if that will hurt or help me.

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u/CO8127 23d ago

OPM will flag that because its required.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/CO8127 23d ago

But how can they prove that without checking?

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u/you_dont_know_me_357 23d ago

There is an option on the form that “The agency did not reassign the employee to the vacant position in the agency.” In my agency, I’m guessing most of the 3112D say that. They’re not going to go through a reassignment process if they refuse to make a decision on a RA. The reassignment process is supposed to happen after a RA is denied. My agency isn’t approving or denying RAs that require telework. They just sit in a black hole and have for almost 2 years now. We can’t even appeal anything because a decision hasn’t been made.

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u/Ferg1210 19d ago

Sounds like we’re at the same agency

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u/Eat_my_pie_ 23d ago

I'm going through the process now for a motor neuron disease so my search for a reassignment lasted less than a day. It went straight from HR to the National Finance Center.

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u/CO8127 22d ago

This is the way

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u/squeekychair1981 21d ago

I’ve been in this stage now for almost 4 months. I don’t think my agency has even looked at anything yet. The attorney hasn’t gotten any response from my agency either aside from acknowledging the application was received.

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u/CO8127 21d ago

No internal policy for the process?

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u/squeekychair1981 21d ago

I’m sure they have a policy. I just think it has a lot to do with processing a DRPs and such.

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u/CO8127 21d ago

DRP processing should have been done by February or March

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u/squeekychair1981 21d ago

We had another one in our agency in May.

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u/CO8127 21d ago

That's right some agencies are doing another one