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.
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).
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.
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.
Note, the full retirement age for Social Security is increasing to age 67. You may retire with a reduced benefit as early as age 60 with at least five years of service.
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.
Although many of the programs base benefit amounts and eligibility to work history, there are some instances where a person who has never worked can collect benefits. One program that provides benefits to people, not based on their work history, is Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
B. You can stop working and start receiving your retirement benefits. If you make the decision to stop working and start receiving retirement benefits before your full retirement age, your benefits are reduced a fraction of a percent for each month before your full retirement age.
If you stop work before you start receiving benefits and you have less than 35 years of earnings, your benefit amount is affected. We use a zero for each year without earnings when we calculate the amount of retirement benefits you are due. Years with no earnings reduce your retirement benefit amount.
If you have no record of paying into the system, you will not receive payouts. If you have not reported income and evaded taxes for a lifetime, then you will receive no Social Security benefits.