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

• Legislative Retirement System (LRS)
• Consolidated Judicial Retirement System (CJRS)
• Local Governmental Employees’ Retirement System (LGERS)

However, only your creditable service in TSERS is used in computing the amount of your benefit in TSERS. Creditable service in any other system is used to compute benefits from that system. In addition, for members first hired prior to January 1, 2021, any service credit you have in the UNC Optional Retirement Program may be added to your creditable service in TSERS in order to determine eligibility for benefits from TSERS.

Transferring Service & Contributions Between Systems

You can transfer your contributions and creditable service between TSERS and LGERS 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. 

A transfer can affect your eligibility for State Health Plan coverage under the Retirement Systems. For more information about the State Health Plan, visit shpnc.org. 

After completing five years of membership service in TSERS, you may transfer contributions and creditable service from CJRS and LRS to TSERS. Contact us for additional information and instructions.