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

• Legislative Retirement System (LRS)
• Consolidated Judicial Retirement System (CJRS)
• Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS)

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

Transferring Service & Contributions Between Systems

You can transfer your contributions and creditable service between LGERS and TSERS as long as you are an eligible member of the system to which you are transferring, do not receive a refund of your contributions from the system from which you are transferring and file Form 5TR (Transferring Service and Contributions Between Systems), available in ORBIT.

Transferred creditable service counts toward your eligibility for a monthly benefit and is used to compute the amount of your benefit. Overlapping transferred service cannot be counted twice for the same time period.