Code of Maine Rules › 94 - INDEPENDENT AGENCIES › 411 - MAINE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM (MAINEPERS) › Chapter 406 - PAYMENT OR REPAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND INTEREST FOR THE PURCHASE OF CREDITABLE SERVICE › Section 411-406-2 - CATEGORIES OF CREDITABLE SERVICE

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
The categories of creditable service are:
1. Back time, which is service with an
				employer, as a state employee, teacher, or participating local district
				employee, when the employee was not a member of the System and, therefore, did
				not make contributions.
2. Refunded
				contributions from "current employer," which is service with a member's
				"current employer" when the employee was a member of the System and made
				contributions that were refunded when the member terminated employment or
				membership.
3. Refunded
				contributions from "previous employer" or employers, which is service with a
				member's previous employer or employers when the employee was a member of the
				System and made contributions that were refunded when the member terminated
				employment or membership. If a member has had refunds representing
				contributions for service with more than one "previous employer", the refund
				relating to each "previous employer" is a separate category for the purposes of
				this chapter. A member who is eligible to purchase creditable service under
				Category 2 ("current employer" refund) must purchase that service before
				purchasing service under this category.
4. Service in the armed forces, which is
				service in the armed forces of the United States before becoming a member of
				the System.
5. Out-of-state
				service, which is service by a member in another state in a category of
				employment that is eligible for membership in the public employee or teacher
				retirement system of that state.
6.
				Other service, which is several other categories of creditable service
				available for purchase, all of which require that the cost of purchasing the
				service is the amount of the actuarial equivalent, at the effective date of the
				retirement benefit, of the additional benefit attributable to the additional
				creditable service to be purchased, as follows:
A. Out-of-state service of a member that is
				not allowed under 5 M.R.S. §§17754(1) and 18354(1), but is allowed
				under 5 M.R.S. §§17754(2) and 18354(2);
B. Service as a teacher in a private or
				parochial school that is not allowed under 5 M.R.S. §§17763(1) and
				18362(1), but is allowed under 5 M.R.S. §§17763(4) and 18362
				(1-A);
C. Service in Vista, the
				Peace Corps, the Fulbright Exchange Program or the Head Start Program in
				Maine;
D. Service as a teacher in
				schools for children of U.S. Foreign Service Corps or U.S. Armed Forces
				personnel outside the continental United States;
E. Employment as a teacher's aide or
				Educational Technician I, whether or not such employment was as a Maine PERS
				member and when, subsequent to such employment, the person becomes a teacher
				member;
F. Unused accrued or
				accumulated sick leave, unused vacation leave, or a combination of both, which
				exceeds 90 days and for which the member is credited on termination of
				service;
G. The period of service
				during which a member took an unpaid or partially paid educational leave
				pursuant to the Maine Educational Leave Act;
H. CETA service of a member that is not
				allowed under 5 M.R.S. §§17707(4)(C) and 18308(4)(C), but is allowed
				under 5 M.R.S. §§17707(4)(D) and 18308(4)(D);
I. The period of service during which an
				elected official, an official appointed for a fixed term, or a substitute
				teacher who began membership after December 31, 1985, elected not to be a
				member of the Maine PERS; and
J.
				The period of service prior to July 1, 1976 during which a member performed any
				work as a teacher of a child with a disability.
K. Service in the armed forces that is
				allowed under 5 M.R.S. §§17760(5) and 18360(2)(I).
L. Service as a full time law enforcement
				officer prior to becoming a Maine PERS member that is allowed under 5 M.R.S.
				§§17767 and 18363.