FLEXIBLE RETIREMENT PLAN As a VA employee, you are part of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). Under FERS, you are eligible for monthly retirement benefits after just 10 years of Federal service. This retirement system is portable.
On your 65th birthday or thereafter if you have at least five years of eligibility service, OR • Plans A & B - on your 50th birthday if you have 30 years or more of eligibility service or at any time thereafter when your age plus years of eligibility service total 80 or more.
Fairfax County operates under a merit system, which means that applicants are selected for jobs on the basis of their education, experience and skills.
The Fairfax County Uniformed Retirement System was established on July 1, 1974, as a public employee retirement system providing defined benefit pension plan coverage for select public safety employees.
Civil service, also known as the merit system, was created to assure that the recruitment and retention of a qualified work force, and, the selection and promotion of employees providing public services and compensated by tax dollars is conducted in a fair and impartial manner and in a competitive fashion.
Currently, the earliest you can voluntarily release your LGPS pension is age 55. The government is planning to increase this to age 57 from 5 April 2028. However, if you were paying into your LGPS pension before 4 November 2021, it is likely you will still be able to take your pension from age 55 if you choose to.
Deferred Compensation Plan Plan design features include a wide range of investment options with differing levels of risk and return, financial planning services, and self-directed brokerage arrangements. For tax year 2023, the maximum annual contribution limit is 80% of your gross wages or $22,500, whichever is less.
Under normal retirement eligibility requirements, a Fairfax County teacher qualifies for full VRS pension benefits at age 67 with five years of service, or at any age—as long as the sum of her age and years of service is 90 or more (whichever comes first).
The VRS Plan 1 is a defined benefit plan. This plan provides a lifetime monthly benefit during retirement based on your age, total service credit and average final compensation. Average final compensation is the average of your 36 consecutive months of highest creditable compensation as a covered employee.