Administrators and Supervisors - out-of-state service credit

Legislative: A 6536 Glick - M. of A., et al.
Reference: S 3380

Title: AN ACT to amend the education law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to out-of-state teaching service credit for members of the New York State teachers’retirement system and the New York City teachers’retirement system.

This legislation would allow members of the New York State and local teachers’retirement systems who last joined the retirement system on or after July 1, 1973 to claim pension credit for their prior out-of-state public school teaching service on the same basis as members who last joined the retirement system prior to July 1, 1973. Members of Tiers III and IV would still be required to make the payments for such credit that are called for by Sections 517 and 609 of the Retirement and Social Security Law.

The Council of Administrators and Supervisors supports this bill. All members of the New York State and New York City teachers’retirement systems should be entitled to receive pension credit for prior out-of-state public school teaching service regardless of whether they were members of the Retirement System at the time they rendered that service. Current requirements for claiming credit for out-of-state public school teaching service are unduly restrictive, allowing only Tier I members to claim such credit. This bill would remedy this unfair and irrational distinction by allowing Tier II, III, and IV members of the Retirement System to claim credit for prior out-of-state public school teaching service in the same manner as Tier I members.