71 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 53 - Membership, Credited Service, Classes Of Service, And Eligibility For Benefits

• Chapter Notes
• Section 5301 - Mandatory And Optional Membership
  (a) Mandatory membership.--Membership in the system shall be mandatory as of the effective date of employment for all State employees except the following: (1)...
• Section 5302 - Credited State Service
  (a) Computation of credited service.--In computing credited State service of a member for the determination of benefits, a full-time salaried State employee, including any...
• Section 5303 - Retention And Reinstatement Of Service Credits
  (a) Eligibility points for accrued credited service.--Eligibility points shall be computed in accordance with section 5307 (relating to eligibility points) with respect to all...
• Section 5303.1 - Election To Convert County Service To State Service
  (a) General rule.--County employees who are transferred to State employment pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 1905 (relating to county-level court administrators) may elect to...
• Section 5303.2 - Election To Convert School Service To State Service
  (a) Eligibility.--An active member or inactive member on leave without pay who was an employee transferred from the Department of Education to the Department...
• Section 5304 - Creditable Nonstate Service
  (a) Eligibility.-- (1) An active member who first becomes an active member before January 1, 2011, or before December 1, 2010, as a member...
• Section 5305 - Social Security Integration Credits
  (a) Crediting of accrued credits.--Any member shall be credited with the social security integration credits which he has accrued up to the effective date...
• Section 5305.1 - Eligibility For Actuarial Increase Factor
  A person who is: (1) an active member; (2) an inactive member on leave without pay; or (3) a multiple service member who is...
• Section 5306 - Classes Of Service
  (a) Class A and Class A-3 membership.-- (1) A State employee who is a member of Class A on the effective date of this...
• Section 5306.1 - Election To Become A Class Aa Member
  (a) General rule.--A person who is: (1) a member of the system; or (2) a multiple service member who is a school employee and...
• Section 5306.2 - Elections By Members Of The General Assembly
  (a) General rule.--A member of the General Assembly who on the effective date of this section is eligible for Class D-4 membership may elect...
• Section 5306.3 - Election To Become A Class A-4 Member
  (a) General rule.--A person who otherwise is eligible for Class A-3 membership who has not previously elected or declined to elect Class A-4 membership...
• Section 5307 - Eligibility Points
  (a) General rule.--An active member of the system shall accrue one eligibility point for each year of credited service as a member of the...
• Section 5308 - Eligibility For Annuities
  (a) Superannuation annuity.--Attainment of superannuation age by an active member or an inactive member on leave without pay with three or more eligibility points...
• Section 5308.1 - Eligibility For Special Early Retirement
  Notwithstanding any provisions of this title to the contrary, the following special early retirement provisions shall be applicable to specified eligible members as follows:...
• Section 5308.2 - Eligibility For Limited Early Retirement
  Notwithstanding any provisions of this title to the contrary, any eligible member who, during the period of time from July 1, 1998, through June...
• 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...
• Section 5309.1 - Eligibility For Special Vesting
  Any employee of The Pennsylvania State University who is a member of the system with five or more but less than ten eligibility points...
• Section 5310 - Eligibility For Death Benefits
  In the event of the death of a member who is eligible for an annuity in accordance with section 5308(a) or (b) (relating to...
• Section 5311 - Eligibility For Refunds
  (a) Total accumulated deductions.--Any active member, regardless of eligibility for benefits, may elect to receive his total accumulated deductions upon termination of service in...

Last modified: October 8, 2016