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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.
02/06/2025
Winter Weather Closes Offices to In-Person Services, Staff Working Remotely
The Bensalem, Harrisburg, Montoursville, State College, & Wilkes-Barre regional offices will be closed to in-person services today, due to forecasted winter weather.
Plan specialists and other staff will be working remotely.
02/04/2025
State College Regional Office Closed to Public
The State College regional office will be closed to in-person services on Fri, Feb. 14, 2025, due to water system maintenance in the office.
Plan specialists and other staff will be supporting members remotely.
01/22/2025
Retirees: Your Annual Statement Is in the Mail
Today, we mailed your Personal Statement of Pension Payments, featuring the 2025 payment calendar, directly from our print and mail vendor in Claysburg, PA. A copy of your statement will be available in your online member services account tomorrow.
If you would like to receive retiree updates directly to your e-mail, sign up here.
01/14/2025
1099-R Tax Documents Are in the Mail
Today we mailed your 1099-R tax documents directly from our print and mail vendor in Claysburg, PA. If you do not receive your 1099-R tax documents by January 29, 2025, please contact a SERS Defined Benefit Plan Specialist at 1.800.633.5461.
You can expect your account statement, featuring the 2025 payment calendar, in about a week. It, too, will be mailed from Claysburg.
12/10/2024
Penn SERS Announces Investment Performance
Pension Fund Investments Up 10% Heading Into 4th Quarter
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement Board, meeting here today, received investment return reports detailing a 10.03% gain for the first nine months of calendar year 2024.
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