However, early retirement carries a penalty of a permanent reduction in your retirement benefit at a rate of 6.5% for each year that you have retired prior to age 63.

Service retirement is a lifetime benefit. In general, you can retire as early as age 50 with five years of service credit unless all service was earned on or after January 1, 2013. Then you must be at least age 52 to retire. There are some exceptions to the 5-year requirement.

If you retire with less than 20 years of service credit, your benefit will equal 1.66 percent of your Final Average Salary (FAS) for each year of service. With 20 to 30 years of service credit, your benefit will equal 2 percent of your FAS, multiplied by your years of credited service.

--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50: This bill would provide a temporary retirement incentive during fiscal year 2020-2021. This incentive would permit eligible members to retire without an early retirement reduction upon attainment of at least age 55 with 25 years of service.

You may choose to: Terminate your membership and withdraw your accumulated contributions plus interest; or. Leave your contributions in your account and qualify for a retirement benefit when you are age 55.

This legislation would provide a temporary retirement incentive during the fiscal year 2021-2022, and would allow members who are eligible to retire without an early retirement reduction upon attainment of at least age fifty-five and with at least twenty-five years of service.

You can retire at age 55 with at least five years of service credit. Members under CalSTRS 2% at 60 also have the option to retire at age 50 with at least 30 years of service credit.