Credited
service is classified as Allowable Police Service or Other Credited Service.
Allowable Police Service
Twenty (20) years of
Allowable Police Service are required for Service Retirement.
It
includes:
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All member
service rendered by you as a uniformed member of the New York City Police Department.
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New York City
Employees’ Retirement System Uniformed Force service (includes uniformed
service in the Housing Police Department, Transit
Police Department, Department of Correction,
Sanitation Department and Emergency Medical Technician [EMT] time) rendered by
you immediately preceding your appointment as a uniformed member of the New
York City Police Department, provided you applied for such credited
service within prescribed time limits and such credited service was properly
transferred to the Police Pension Fund.
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Credit for
service rendered in the uniformed force of the New York City Fire Department, provided you applied for such
credited service within prescribed time limits and such credited service was
properly transferred to the Police Pension Fund.
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Credit for
any service rendered while a member of the New York State Employees’ Retirement System or New York
State Police and Fire Retirement System, provided you applied for such
credited service within prescribed time limits and such credited service was properly
transferred to the Police Pension Fund. (New York State Teachers’ Retirement
System is considered as “other credited service” if purchased under Chapter
646.)
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You may be
entitled to receive up to five (5) years of credited service for military service provided you were a member
of a city retirement system at the time you entered military service and you
immediately returned to city service upon discharge from the military. Upon
request, the Police Pension Fund will provide you with information about other
circumstances under which you may be eligible for military service
credit.
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Under Chapter
548 of the Laws of 2000, members may purchase up to three (3)years of certain wartime military service
performed prior to appointment,
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Under Chapter
606 of the Laws of 2000, members may purchase up to four (4) years of
combined military service and service as a police
officer in a foreign country for the United States
Government.
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Under Chapter
594 of the Laws of 2000, members may purchase up to one (1) year for each authorized Child Care
Leave.
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Under Chapter 498 of the Laws of 2005,
active members who properly transferredCity
time that occurred immediately prior to their New York
City
Police Department appointment may count this time as uniformed
time, provided it is considered to have peace officer status under Section 2.10 of the CPL or is service as a
NYC
Emergency Medical
Technician (EMT). This law is not retroactive, and it will
affect a member’s contribution rate. Members who
wish to have this time count as uniformed time must ask the Police Pension Fund’s Membership
Services Unit for application assistance.
This time, if properly transferred to the
New York City Police Pension Fund at the time of
appointment, shall be credited as uniformed
time.
Other Credited Service
Other
Credited Service is any service other than Allowable Police Service, and it
counts as additional service credit (monetary benefit) beyond your required
twenty (20) years. Other credited service includes membership service rendered
while a member in a non-uniformed position within the New York City Employees’
Retirement System (NYCERS) and/or membership in the Board of Education
Retirement System. In addition, uniformed service credit that does not
immediately precede uniformed service in the New York City Police Department is
considered to be Other Credited Service. All other service must be applied for
within the prescribed time limits.
Prior Transit and Housing Service
Former
Transit & Housing Police Officers who became members of the Police Pension
Fund Article II due to the 1995 merger, or a rollover, maintain their
eligibility based on their original dates of membership in the New York City
Employees’
Retirement System (NYCERS).
Members should contact the Police Pension Fund, Membership Services Unit
212-693-5850 to verify their membership dates into NYCERS versus
their appointment dates.
Note: Members
may buy back any missing service under Chapter 552.
