Retirement Service Credit

Retirement Service Credit Includes:

• All periods of Hazardous Duty service for which you have paid required retirement contributions
• Periods of creditable workers’ compensation
• Unused vacation days upon your retirement / separation from service
• Properly documented voluntary leave taken after 6/9/94 counts as free retirement service credit
• Periods of purchased service credit if preceded and succeeded by hazardous duty service

Additional Service Credit After the 20 year Hazardous Duty requirement is met

• State employment in non-hazardous duty positions
• Prior military service for which retirement credit has been confirmed
• Prior full-time service to other states where reciprocity exists
• Prior CT municipal service while a member of CMERS

Retirement Service Credit Excludes:

• Any periods for which you have not paid retirement contributions including, but not limited to:
  • Un-purchased leaves of absence without pay;
  • Periods for which you exclusively received non-creditable workers’ compensation payments;

Part-Time Service:

• If you have had part-time service, you should know that:
  • your part-time service will be treated as full-time service when determining your eligibility to retire
  • your retirement income will be calculated to produce a benefit which reflects the portion of a full-time schedule you worked throughout your state employment
• Example:
  • Lets assume a member worked part-time at 50% of a full-time schedule for 20 years
    • For eligibility purposes, this member would receive credit for 20 years.
    • However, when calculating this member’s benefit percentage, this worker 50% of full-time for 20 years).

Further details are available on-line in the Hazardous Duty Workshop or Summary Plan Description