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Provides you with a pension or guaranteed monthly payments for life.
Available to employees hired before 1/1/19 and certain law enforcement and security positions after.
Provides you with the option to choose your own investments and assume the risk.
Available to most employees hired after 1/1/19.
Provides you with a combined retirement benefit, which includes a pension and investment plan.
Default retirement plan for most employees hired after 1/1/19.
Provides you with a voluntary supplemental investment
plan with tax deferred savings.
Available to most active employees.
Established in 1923, the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System is one of the nation's oldest and largest statewide retirement plans for public employees. Our mission is to prepare our members and participants to achieve financial success and security in retirement. We are proud to serve you and thank you for your work to make Pennsylvania great.
New members can use this website to learn about your retirement benefit, particularly some choices you need to make when you're first hired. Active members can run estimates to see how your retirement benefit grows as your years of service and salary change. Members who are getting ready to retire can read about payment options and get a check list for your counseling session. Retired members can get duplicate tax forms and click through to the Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund - the PEBTF - for more about your health care.
Estimate your future retirement benefit or the federal tax withholding from your current pension payments.
Provide your e-mail address to get member updates, notice of board meetings, press releases, and more.
Contact SERS with questions about your specific plan or fill out our contact form for general questions.
06/25/2025
Online Services Restored
SERS online member and employer services are back online.
Thank you for your patience during the service interruption!
06/25/2025
Online Services Unavailable
SERS online member and employer services are currently unavailable due to a server outage impacting several commonwealth services. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please know that you can still access your Deferred Compensation Plan and Defined Contribution Plan online accounts.
06/24/2025
Penn SERS 2024 Financial Reports Available
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System today announced the release of its 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the calendar year ended Dec. 31, 2024.
06/20/2025
Bensalem Regional Office Closed to Public
The Bensalem regional office is closed to in-person services today. Plan specialists and other staff will be supporting members remotely.
06/17/2025
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement Board, meeting here today, approved two new procurements and announced the selected vendor for another.
05/06/2025
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement Board, meeting here today, received key results from the system’s 2024 actuarial valuation and approved the actuarially calculated contribution rates for the commonwealth’s 2025-26 fiscal year.
03/20/2025
Active Members: Your 2024 SERS Statement is Now Available
Your 2024 SERS statement is now available in your online account.
Print copies are scheduled to mail directly from our print and mail vendor in Claysburg, PA on Monday.
Your statement provides a snapshot of all your SERS retirement plans as of December 31, 2024, whether you have one or multiple SERS retirement plans. The statement lists the number of beneficiaries you have on file for each plan. Beneficiaries are plan specific, so if you contribute to more than one SERS retirement plan, you will need to name beneficiaries for each plan.
Please review your annual statement for accuracy and keep it with your other important financial documents. Your combined statement will help you plan for your retirement.
If you do not receive your member statement by April 4, 2025, please contact a SERS plan specialist at ra-sersretc@pa.gov or 1.800.633.5461.
If you would like to receive member updates directly to your e-mail, sign up here.
03/04/2025
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement Board, meeting here today, received investment reports detailing a 9.8% return in 2024 that added approximately $3.5 billion to the SERS Fund for pension benefits.
02/24/2025
SERS 2025 Supplemental Budget Book Released
The budget book provides detailed information about the retirement plans SERS administered in 2024 and proposed budgets for commonwealth fiscal year 2025-26. Key data is provided in a budget handout that includes the budget highlights, snapshots of data for each SERS-administered retirement plan, and the 2024 Pension Payments By County map.
As in years past, the budget book includes investment performance, member demographics, actuarial information, and employer funding projections for the Defined Benefit (pension) Plan, and participant information, and investment options and performance information for both the Defined Contribution Plan and the supplemental, voluntary Deferred Compensation Plan. You’ll also find information on the Hybrid Plan that is the default plan for most state employees hired since 2019, in which a portion of the employee’s retirement benefit comes from the Defined Benefit (pension) Plan and a portion comes from the Defined Contribution (investment) Plan.
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