Any credit you may have in the following retirement systems may be counted along with your credit in CJRS in order to determine your eligibility for a reduced or unreduced benefit: 

• Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS) 
   
• Legislative Retirement System (LRS) 
   
• Local Governmental Employees’ Retirement System (LGERS)

However, only your creditable service in CJRS is used in computing the amount of your benefit in CJRS. Creditable service in any other system is used to compute benefits from that system.

Transferring Service & Contributions Between Systems

After completing five years of membership service in CJRS, if you have an active account in TSERS, LGERS, or LRS, you may transfer contributions and creditable service from any of these systems to CJRS. 

If you are a re-employed retiree of TSERS or CJRS, who, following retirement, has returned to employment under CJRS, you may transfer service credits from TSERS to CJRS upon completion of three years following your return to employment, provided you have a total of five years of CJRS service.