Employee Benefits - Retirement

• You contribute: tax-deferred 9.00% of gross pay into your SCRS retirement account.
• Winthrop contributes: 24.91% on your behalf to the SCRS.

• If you die in-service with a least one year of service credit, a payment equal to your current annual earnable compensation will be paid to your designated beneficiary or trustee.
• If your death results from a job related injury, the one-year requirement is waived.

A member of SCRS may be approved for disability retirement benefits from SCRS only if the member has first been approved for disability benefits from the federal Social Security Administration, which generally requires an incapacity to perform any gainful occupation.  You are able to find additional information in the SCRS Member Handbook.

• To return to work after you retire, you must first have a complete, bona fide severance or termination of employment.  After 30 days of retirement, you may be hired by an employer covered by the Retirement Systems to return to work.  For Class Two members the TERI period counts toward the 30-day break requirement.
• Any retired member who is employed by an agency that adheres to state personnel policies will be exempt from the State Employee Grievance Procedure Act.  This means your employment is at will.
• Working retired members must contribute a tax-deferred 8.66 percent of gross pay into their retirement account.  No additional service credit will be applied.

• You contribute: tax-deferred 9.00% of gross pay into your State ORP account, which is then invested in the products you select from offerings from your investment provider.
• Winthrop contributes: 5% into your State ORP account, which is then invested in the products you select from offerings from your investment provider.

• You may change your investment provider only during an open enrollment period which is January 1 through March 1.
• State ORP participants may irrevocably elect to join SCRS during any open enrollment period (January 1 through March 1) after the first annual anniversary, but before the fifth annual anniversary of the person's initial enrollment in the State ORP.

• If you die in-service with at least one year of service credit, a payment equal to your current annual salary will be paid to your designated beneficiary or trustee.
• If your death results from a job-related injury, the one-year requirement is waived.

• You contribute: tax-deferred 9.75% of gross pay into your PORS retirement account.
• Winthrop contributes: 27.59% on your behalf to the PORS.

• If you die in-service with at least one year of service credit, a payment equal to your current annual earnable compensation will be paid to your designated beneficiary or trustee.
• If your death results from a job-related injury, the one-year requirement is waived.

Provides a survivor annuity if you are covered and die as a result of an injury by external accident or violence incurred while undergoing a hazard peculiar to your employment while in the actual performance of duty, without willful negligence on your part.

• To return to work after you retire, you must first have a complete, bona fide severance or termination of employment. After 30 days of retirement, you may be hired by an employer covered by the Retirement Systems to return to work. 
• Any retired member who is employed by an agency that adheres to state personnel policies will be exempt from the State Employee Grievance Procedure Act. This means your employment is at will.
• Working retired members must contribute a tax-deferred 9.75% of gross pay into their retirement account. No additional service credit will be applied.