If you have active membership credit in more than one Texas public retirement system, you may be eligible to combine all your service credit for service retirement under TRS.
If you retired after Sept. 1, 2016, you may also be eligible to combine all your service credit to determine early-age retirement reductions.
If you wish to retire in another system, you may similarly be eligible to combine your TRS service credit with service credit in that entity.
Note: Combined service credit under this program may not be used to establish eligibility for TRS-Care or any type of benefit other than service retirement benefits. The calculation of any TRS retirement benefit amount is based solely on TRS service credit and salaries. Benefits based on service credit earned in other participating retirement systems are the responsibility of those other retirement systems.
Participating systems include:
- Teacher Retirement System of Texas
- Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS)
- Judicial Retirement System of Texas (Plans One and Two)
- Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS)
- Texas County and District Retirement System (TCDRS)
- City of Austin Employees’ Retirement System
- City of Austin Police Retirement System
- El Paso City Employees’ Pension Fund
- El Paso Firemen and Policemen’s Pension Fund
You may be eligible to reinstate previously withdrawn service credit in any participating system, subject to restrictions. Contact the relevant system for details. As a TRS member, determine your proportionate retirement rights before withdrawing member accounts from other participating systems, as it may terminate or affect your eligibility for benefits.