This includes teachers, administrators and other support staff who worked in a Pennsylvania school district. Multiple service election is a voluntary decision on your part. If you want to elect multiple service credit, you must make your election within time frames detailed in the Retirement Code. Contact your Retirement Counseling Center immediately upon joining SERS for information on the applicable time frames. Further, you must make any payments necessary to obtain multiple service status within the time frames listed in the billing that you will receive after electing multiple service.
Special rules apply to the purchase of multiple service.
These rules are different than those dealing with the purchase of other service, such as previous State service. However, you cannot receive more than one year of service credit in any calendar year. Your retirement benefits will be combined into one monthly check and paid from the last system where you worked.