If you work for another state agency and currently participate in SERS Tier I, Tier II, Tier IIA, Tier III, Tier IV, Tier IV Substitute, SERS Hybrid Plan, ARP or TRS, you are not entitled to change retirement plan participation as a result of accepting supplemental employment and must remain in the retirement plan to which you were assigned at the time of commencing any dual employment.
Employees with full-time positions during which they are members of the TRS who are dually employed in a part-time position not includable in TRS are ineligible for retirement plan membership during such part-time service.
Employees with full-time positions during which they are members of the ARP or SERS Hybrid Plan who are dually employed in a part-time position solely eligible for SERS Tier IV membership are ineligible for retirement plan membership during such part-time service.1
Employees with full-time positions during which they are members of the ARP, SERS, or SERS Hybrid Plan who are dually employed in a part-time position ineligible for retirement plan membership are ineligible for retirement plan membership during such part-time service.2
State Judges who accept part-time positions with a state college or university are not eligible to participate in a retirement plan during this secondary, part-time employment.
Please see your agency’s Human Resources Officer to complete a Form CO-931h, “Designation of Retirement System-Tier-Plan-Beneficiary for Higher Education Employment Only”.
1 Part-time seasonal employees of the CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection are common examples of such positions.
2 This rule does not apply to positions classified as “special payroll” at the University of Connecticut. ARP, SERS, and SERS Hybrid members concurrently employed in a retirement eligible position and retirement ineligible special payroll position are required to remit retirement contributions on the special payroll earnings. While the special payroll position will under no circumstances convey retirement service, it will be factored into the calculation of your final average earnings.