If those benefits are suspended, the Board of Trustees has the option to continue calculating the retirement benefit as though the retiree was still receiving those benefits. Benefits may be terminated if a retiree fails to cooperate with Workers' Compensation rehabilitation, vocational or medical requirements. Benefits will be reduced to the extent your earnings plus your retirement benefit exceed what you would have earned if you had not retired. The benefit to your surviving spouse continues until your spouse remarries. Unused sick leave may be credited as service at the rate of 172 hours of sick leave per month of service.
Benefits are taxable.
Your level of benefits may also be reduced following completion of a rehabilitation or training program, a re-evaluation, or based on other factors which significantly affect your ability to gain other employment and compensation equivalent to your prior position as a police officer. Also, benefits cease if you return to work with Fairfax County in a retirement eligible position under the Police Officers Retirement System before your normal retirement date. If you are vested in the Virginia Retirement System or most other local governmental retirement systems in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and have not withdrawn your contributions from that system, you may now be able to purchase additional service in the Employees', Uniformed or Police Officers Retirement Systems. Some restrictions may apply. For more information about purchasing or transferring this service, contact the Retirement Office at 279-8200.