Resource Center for VRS Employers: Hybrid Retirement Plan

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Eligibility

Attention Judicial Retirement System (JRS) Members: You are in the JRS Hybrid Retirement Plan if you were appointed or elected to an original term on or after January 1, 2014. Learn more about your plan in the Judicial Retirement System Handbook PDF icon.

Eligible New Members

You are eligible for the VRS Hybrid Retirement Plan if your membership date is on or after January 1, 2014, and you are:

  • A full-time permanent, salaried state employee.
  • A faculty member of a Virginia public college or university, excluding those eligible for hazardous duty benefits.
  • A full-time permanent, salaried teacher or administrative employee of a Virginia public school division.
  • A full-time permanent, salaried employee of a VRS-participating political subdivision (city, county, town, authority, commission), excluding those eligible for hazardous duty benefits.
  • A local law enforcement officer, firefighter or emergency medical technician whose employer does not provide enhanced hazardous duty benefits or the hazardous duty alternate option.
  • A judge appointed or elected to an original term on or after January 1, 2014.
  • An employee who elected the Hybrid Retirement Plan instead of an optional retirement plan (ORP) authorized or administered by VRS.

Ineligible New Members

You are not eligible for the VRS Hybrid Retirement Plan if you are:

  • A State Police Officers' Retirement System (SPORS) member.
  • A Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System (VaLORS) member.
  • A political subdivision member who is covered by enhanced benefits for hazardous duty employees.
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