Decide which combless form to pilot

[mackhowell-nava]

Work with Shannon and Jen on this, see:

• Slack thread in EE design channel
  • Summary:
    • Our goal is to "prove out this strategy, not necessarily measure the impact for a single form in production".
    • 0781
      • Not a lot of combs
      • Good for proving out the strategy (stakeholders aligned)
      • Unfortuntately would have to wait until March, when the new form is supposed to go live.
    • 4142
      • More combs
      • Might be good for proving out the strategy (depending on who we need to work with).
      • High impact for MAS.
      • Shannon -- the from is from 2018 and needs updating -- might be VFF team we need to work with.
    • 0995/0996
      • More combs
      • Might be good for proving out the strategy (depending on who we need to work with).
      • High impact for MAS
      • Shannon -- might require The Board weighing in/approving. Carolyn -- recommend we stay away because of this, and the fact that it's still early in our validation efforts.
• Notes from Meeting with Kayce White
  • See notes here
  • Summary:
    • Office of Mission Support (Nancy, Yvette) handles form programming and fillable fields
    • Major revision underway combining Form 0995 into 526 EZ and aiming for February completion.
    • Implementation will be phased over 3 years
    • Form 0995 will continue to exist but no longer for compensation/pension
    • Identified solution: we can create separate versions without OCR boxes specifically for VA.gov
      • Requirements:
        • Must maintain exact formatting/layout
        • Can replace OCR boxes with fillable fields
        • Cannot combine or modify rows
      • Priority forms identified:
        • Form 4142
        • Form 0781 (recently approved for 3 more years – this is Kayce’s recommendation)
      • Process will require coordination between VA.gov team and forms team for updates
• Teams message from Katherine King
  • "The 526EZ from va.gov does not usually go through MAS processing so focusing on that form first would likely not impact MAS very much. On a MAS standpoint, based on volume of CMP receipts of forms from va.gov in December, it looks like the 0995 or 0996 would be good ones.
  • "The 4142 would also be a good one based on volume of receipts. There is currently a workaround for 4142s received with the "see a" address, but having the full address could improve processing as the work around will not be needed."

[mackhowell-nava]

See summary table here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pc9WAZCce2LhcanrW3x_BeemsERE2HvRnj3FarOPBCw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.txxjqwlh5967

TLDR:

• The 0781 seems like the obvious choice given that we have alignment from Kayce, DBEX Carbs, and @shannonkford -- however we'll have to wait until March for the new "automated" form to go live.
• In the mean time we can continue pushing forward the 4142, 0995, 0996, and learn more about the LOE and additional blockers with those.