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.