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Retirement Overview

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Estimating Your Pension

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Service Credit - Earning and Purchasing

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Earning Service
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Types of Service Credit

Act 88 — Reciprocal Retirement Act of 1961
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Purchasing by Check or Money Order
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Actuarial Cost Table

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Rounding Out Your Retirement Plans

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Ready to Retire

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Qualifying for Your Pension
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Qualifying for Your Pension

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Estimating Your Pension

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Final Average Compensation
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Payment Options
How to Apply
What to Expect After You Apply

Rounding Out Your Retirement Plans

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Are You Ready to Retire?

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Are You Ready to Retire?

Choosing a Date

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Post-Retirement Increases

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Common Bumps

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Proof of Age
Pension Election/Spousal Waiver
Dependent Proofs for Insurance
Recording Your Last Day of Work
Unpaid Service Credit or Contributions Bill(s)

After Retirement

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What to Expect After You Apply
Working After You Retire
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Power of Attorney and Advance Directive Resources
What Your Survivors Should Know

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What to Expect After You Apply

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What to Expect After You Apply

Working After You Retire

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Post-Retirement Increases

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Power of Attorney and Advance Directive Resources

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What Your Survivors Should Know

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Your Insurance

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Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
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Benefits for Life for State Retirees

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

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When your retirement application is processed, we forward your insurance information to the health, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance carriers. You should receive insurance identification cards and materials a few weeks after your pension begins.

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Long-Term Care

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Dependent Health Insurance

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Benefits for Life for State Retirees

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Leaving State Employment?

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Disability Protection

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Monthly retirement payroll additions

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Three DB Plans
Membership
Contributions
Retirement Overview
Pension Eligibility
Earning Service Credit
Adding to Your Service Credit
Your Member Statement
Beneficiary/Death Benefits

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Back Membership

Back Contributions

Back Retirement Overview

Back Pension Eligibility

Back Estimating Your Pension

Final Average Compensation
Covered Employees and Conservation Officers
Payment Options

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Back Your Member Statement

Back Beneficiary/Death Benefits

Back Service Credit - Earning and Purchasing

Earning Service
Adding to Your Service
Actuarial Cost Table
Rounding Out Your Retirement Plans

Back Earning Service

Back Adding to Your Service

Back Types of Service Credit

Act 88 — Reciprocal Retirement Act of 1961
CETA
City
County
County Social Welfare
Court of Record
Federal Government
Military
Other Governmental
Other States
Township
Parental Leave
Public School
Repayment of Refunded Contributions
State Police
Universal Buy-In
University
Village
Workers' Compensation

Back How to Purchase

Purchasing by Check or Money Order
Plan-to-Plan Transfer
Purchasing Through Tax-Deferred Payments
Combining Your Payment Methods
Your Member Statement

Back Actuarial Cost Table

Back Rounding Out Your Retirement Plans

Back Ready to Retire

Qualifying for Your Pension
Rounding Out Your Retirement Plans
Are You Ready to Retire?
Choosing a Date
Post-Retirement Increases

Back Qualifying for Your Pension

Back Estimating Your Pension

Final Average Compensation
Covered Employees and Conservation Officers
Payment Options
How to Apply
What to Expect After You Apply

Back Rounding Out Your Retirement Plans

Back Are You Ready to Retire?

Back Choosing a Date

Back Post-Retirement Increases

Back Common Bumps

Proof of Age
Pension Election/Spousal Waiver
Dependent Proofs for Insurance
Recording Your Last Day of Work
Unpaid Service Credit or Contributions Bill(s)

Back After Retirement

miAccount link
What to Expect After You Apply
Working After You Retire
Post-Retirement Increases
Power of Attorney and Advance Directive Resources
What Your Survivors Should Know

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Back What to Expect After You Apply

Back Working After You Retire

Back Post-Retirement Increases

Back Power of Attorney and Advance Directive Resources

Back What Your Survivors Should Know

Back Your Insurance

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Long-Term Care
Dependent Health Insurance
Benefits for Life for State Retirees

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Back Life Insurance

Back Long-Term Care

Back Dependent Health Insurance

Back Benefits for Life for State Retirees

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Online Presentations
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Videos

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Meeting Schedule
Agendas
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The retirement plan information that appears on this website is intended to summarize basic provisions of Public Act 240 of 1943, as amended. Current laws, rates, and factors are subject to change. Should there be discrepancies between the information reflected here and the actual law, the provisions of the law govern.

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