Office of Personnel Management

Retirement and Insurance Service

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Benefits Administration Letter

Number: 95-712 Date: November 22, 1995 

SUBJECT: Availability of the CSRS and FERS Handbook on Disk

The purpose of this letter is to inform you that CSRS and FERS Handbook on Disk is now

available. The Handbook on Disk provides the entire, revised CSRS and FERS Handbook

for Personnel and Payroll Offices in an electronic format that allows you to search for any

word or phrase and use hypertext links to jump directly to linked parts of the Handbook on

Disk.

Additional information about the Handbook on Disk and how to order copies can be found in

the attachment. A complimentary copy of the Handbook on Disk will be distributed to

headquarters level agency benefits officers at the next IAG meeting.

Mary M. Sugar, Chief

Agency Service Division

Attachment
CSRS and FERS

Handbook on Disk

CSRS and FERS

Handbook on Disk

Table of Contents

Chapter Part of Chapter

Table of Contents

It’s here!

The CSRS and FERS Handbook for Personnel and Payroll Offices can be

at your fingertips ) right on your PC.

TheCSRS and FERS Handbook for Personnel and Payroll Offices, formerly FPM Supplement

830-1, is now available on floppy disks. The Handbook on Disk contains the instructions agency

personnel and payroll offices need to carry out their responsibilities for basic benefits under the

Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS).

The Handbook on Disk provides 

! enhanced productivity

! improved customer service

! document integrity

! reduced costs.

Since the Handbook on Disk puts information at your fingertips, staff time is spent more

productively providing customer service. No more searching through stacks of paper looking for

the right chapter and then wondering if all the update pages have been inserted. The Handbook

on Disk contains all published chapters with updates integrated into the chapters. 

The Handbook on Disk will change the way you do work.

T Search capabilities allow the user to search for any word or phrase and jump to that location

in the document. 

T Hypertext links allow the user to jump

directly to other linked parts of the

Handbook on Disk.
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T Users can copy sections of the Handbook on Disk to be used in other documents without the

need for re-keying. For example, employee information sheets and sample letter text can be

copied directly into the user’s word processing program.

T You can also print selected pages, or sections to use as worksheets or employee handouts.

The Handbook on Disk is complete. All text, tables, charts and forms are on the disk. Future

updates will contain the complete Handbook on Disk. The need for the time consuming, and

frequently incomplete, process of inserting change pages is eliminated. We are planning to issue

an update in the Spring 1996.

Reduce costs.

The cost of the Handbook on Disk is significantly lower than paper copies. The Handbook on

Disk will run on a LAN, so one copy is accessible by everyone at their own desktop PC. You can

provide desktop access to all staff members who need it for a fraction of the cost you'd normally

pay.

The user friendly Handbook on Disk easily installs the chapters in a directory on your computer

hard drive.

Adobe Acrobat

The chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Adobe Acrobat creates documents that look the

same on the screen as they do on paper. Acrobat PDF ("Portable Document Format") files can

be viewed and/or printed by you even if you don't own a copy of the software which created it by

using the Acrobat Reader.

Ordering Information

Complete the order form and mail or fax to OPM for prompt delivery of the Handbook on Disk.

The Handbook on Disk subscription price of $250 includes the current complete handbook, plus

an updated version in the Spring 1996. Both the DOS and Windows versions of the Adobe

Acrobat Reader software that is used to view, search, read and print are provided as well.

For more information call 202-606-0777 ext. 798 or fax us at 202-606-1108.

System Requirements

The Handbook on Disk comes on 3.5" floppy disks and requires 15 MB available hard disk

space.

DOS Acrobat Reader requires 4 MB RAM and DOS 4.0 or higher. A mouse is highly

recommended. Windows Acrobat Reader requires 4 MB RAM and Windows 3.1 or higher. 
CSRS and FERS Handbook on Disk

ORDER FORM

Handbook on Disk contains the complete CSRS and FERS Handbook for

Personnel and Payroll Offices on 3.5" floppy disks plus both the DOS and

Windows versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader software.

YES, please send me ________ copies of the Handbook on Disk at $250 per

set.

The total cost of my order is $ .

Name ___________________________________________

Organization _____________________________________

Street Address ___________________________________

City, State, Zip __________________________________

Phone ___________________FAX____________________

Are you using Windows? Yes No

 

Please enclose a check payable to OPM with your order form. Unfortunately

we cannot accept credit card purchases.

Send all order forms and checks to:

Attn: Handbook on Disk

Agency Services Division

P.O. Box 57 

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Washington, D.C. 20044

If you are a Federal Agency and would prefer to be billed, you may fax your order to

202-606-1108. Please provide the following information:

Agency Location Code (ALC) - 

Agency Accounting Data - 

(include all accounting information required for proper billing, such as Document/Purchase

Order/Requisition No., Index/Dept. code)