2016 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 71 - STATE GOVERNMENT
Chapter 53 - Membership, Credited Service, Classes of Service, and Eligibility for Benefits
Section 5309 - Eligibility for vesting
Any member who:
(1) Does not have Class A-3 or Class A-4 service credit or Class T-E or Class T-F service credit in the Public School Employees' Retirement System and terminates State service with five or more eligibility points, or any member with Class G, Class H, Class I, Class J, Class K, Class L, Class M or Class N service with five or more eligibility points, shall be eligible until his required beginning date to vest his retirement benefits.
(2) Has Class A-3 or Class A-4 service credit or Class T-E or Class T-F service credit in the Public School Employees' Retirement System and terminates State service with ten or more eligibility points shall be eligible until his required beginning date to vest his retirement benefits.
(3) Has either Class A-3 or Class A-4 service credit or Class T-E or Class T-F service credit in the Public School Employees' Retirement System, also has service credited in the system in one or more other classes of service and has five or more, but fewer than ten, eligibility points shall be eligible until his required beginning date to vest his retirement benefits calculated on his service credited in classes of service other than Class A-3 or Class A-4 and to be credited with statutory interest on total accumulated deductions, regardless of whether or not any part of his accumulated deductions are a result of Class A-3 or Class A-4 service credit.
(June 22, 1999, P.L.75, No.12, eff. imd.; May 17, 2001, P.L.26, No.9, eff. July 1, 2001; Nov. 23, 2010, P.L.1269, No.120, eff. imd.; Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.529, No.93, eff. imd.)
2001 Amendment. See section 37 of Act 9 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to applicability of amendment to State Employees' Retirement System members.
Cross References. Section 5309 is referred to in sections 5307, 5955.2 of this title.
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