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1.3.2.3 Pension Credit for Service Time

Feb 19, 2026

  • No. 004 Pension Rights
  • No. 009 Pension Rights Continued
  • No. 040 Pension Rights Continued
  • No. 074 Pension Entitlements Under USERRA
  • No. 075 Pension Rights Revisited
  • No. 076 Making Up Missed Contributions to Pension Plan
  • No. 082 Pre-Tax Dollars for Make-Up Pension Contributions
  • No. 107 Pension Entitlements Apply To Training Duty
  • No. 119 State Law Cannot Limit Pension Credit
  • No. 138 Pension Credit for Military Service—Continued
  • No. 139 Pension Credit for Military Service
  • No. 167 Pension Rights of Federal Employees Returning From Military Service
  • No. 0607 How Does USERRA Apply to the Relationship Among Employers and Pension Plan Administrators?
  • No. 0703 USERRA’s Pension Rules Apply to Short-Term Military Periods
  • No. 0732 USERRA Applies to Deferred Compensation Plans
  • No. 0741 Am I Permitted To Make Up Missed Employee Contributions To My Pension Plan After Leaving The Employ Of The Pre-Service Employer?
  • No. 0757 Buy Back Time: Your Primer on the Civil Service Retirement System in Regards to Military Service
  • No. 0843 Important New Law for Military Families Affects Civilian Employers
  • No. 09015 13th Supreme Court Case Relating to Reemployment Statute  Alabama Power Co. v. Davis, 431 U.S. 581 (1977)
  • No. 09019 14th Supreme Court Case Relating to Reemployment Statute Coffy v. Republic Steel Corp., 447 U.S. 191 (1980)
  • No. 10022 USERRA Applies in Determining Career Overtime Average for Pension Purposes
  • No. 10090 Federal Civilian Retirement Credit for Military Service
  • No. 11015 No Age Limit on USERRA Protection
  • No. 11019 USERRA and Public Sector Pension Plans
  • No. 11020 Double Serving Not Double Dipping
  • No. 11050 TSP and USERRA
  • No. 12017 You Must Apply for Reemployment- Part 3
  • No. 12019 Computation of Civilian Pension Upon Returning to Work After Service
  • No. 12030 DOJ Sues UAL to Enforce USERRA Pension Rights of Air Guard Member
  • No. 12038 Why Can’t I Retire From My Civilian Job While I am on Active Duty?
  • No. 12051 USERRA and Public Sector Defined Benefit Pension Plans
  • No. 12059 Meet USERRA Eligibility Criteria in Order to Gain USERRA Pension Credit
  • No. 12061 DOJ Settles USERRA Suit Filed Against United Airlines
  • No. 12070 Civilian Pension Credit for Military Service Time before 1994
  • No. 12083 DOJ Files Class Action USERRA Lawsuit against NYC
  • No. 12100 Yes You Can Double-Dip!
  • No. 12103 Pension Credit for 1980s Military Service
  • No. 12104 DOJ Expands Investigation of USERRA Violations by NYC
  • No. 13031 State of Nevada Finally Complies with USERRA
  • No. 13043 USERRA and the Collective Bargaining Agreement—What Is the Limit on Duration of my Active Duty?
  • No. 13054 Not All USERRA Plaintiffs Are Successful
  • No. 13061 Right to Health Insurance Reinstatement when Returning to Work after Military Service
  • No. 13068 Federal Thrift Savings Plan and USERRA
  • No. 13069 CSRS and USERRA
  • No. 13081 DOJ Sues Cook County for Violating USERRA Pension Rights of Army Reserve Nurse
  • No. 13083 Don’t Tell your Civilian Employer that you Are Considering Enlistment
  • No. 13084 DOJ Sues Flight Safety Services Corporation to Enforce USERRA Pension Rights of Two Air Force Reservists
  • No. 13090 DOJ and NYPD Settle USERRA Class Action Lawsuit
  • No. 13113 Pension Credit with State-Local Governments for Pre-1974 Military Service
  • No. 13125 Buying Federal Civilian Retirement Credit for Reserve Service
  • No. 13133 NYPD Violates USERRA Again
  • No. 13136 Does USERRA’s Escalator Principle Apply to Defined Contribution Pension Plans?
  • No. 13137 USERRA Pension Review
  • No. 13138 USERRA Pension Credit for Military Service Beyond Five Years
  • No. 13139 How Much Must I Pay to Obtain State Pension Credit for my Year of Active Duty?
  • No. 13142 Texas Teacher Retirement System PDF Gets USERRA Wrong
  • No. 13144 The SCRA and USERRA – Protecting the Civil Rights of Service Members in the 21st Century
  • No. 13146 Detroit Bankruptcy and USERRA
  • No. 13151 I Think that my Employer Must Make both the Employer and the Employee Contributions to my Pension Plan
  • No. 14013 DD-214 Delay Could Delay Retirement from Civilian Career
  • No. 14015 Civilian Pension Credit for Long Period of Military Service
  • No. 14016 Class Action USERRA Lawsuit against American Airlines Concerning Insufficient Pension Contributions for Pilots Returning to Work after extended Military Leave
  • No. 14017 Statute of Limitations and the NYPD Class Action USERRA Laws
  • No. 14022 Make-Up Contributions to Your Defined Contribution Pension Plan
  • No. 15035 USERRA’s Five-Year Limit and the Initial Period of Obligated Service
  • No. 15037 Reemployment Rights for Wounded Warriors
  • No. 15053 USERRA 101 Final Exam
  • No. 15065 It Is not your Responsibility To Document your Physical and Psychological Readiness To Return to Work
  • No. 15070 What Happens when your Probationary Period Is Interrupted by a Call to the Colors?
  • No. 15081 You Must Leave Active Duty and Apply for Reemployment to Obtain Civilian Pension Credit for your Military Service Time
  • No. 15082 You Must Stay within the Five-Year Limit To Obtain Civilian Pension Credit for Military Service Time
  • No. 15083 Yes, You Can Purchase State Public Employee Retirement Credit for Service Academy Time, at Least in California
  • No. 15084 Sometimes You Get Federal Employee Retirement Credit for Military Service, and Sometimes such Credit Is Precluded
  • No. 15085 Purchasing Federal Civilian Retirement Credit for Active Military Service before You Began Your Federal Civilian Career
  • No. 15092 2015 New Jersey Military Law Symposium
  • No. 15116 New USERRA Primer
  • No. 16025 Airline Employer Must Make Contributions to your Airline Pension Account when you Return from Military Service
  • No. 16026 What Is Reasonable Certainty?
  • No. 16030 USERRA and Defined Contribution Pension Plans
  • No. 16032 April 2016 Important New USERRA Pension Case
  • No. 16038 Pension Rights in a Defined Contribution Plan
  • No. 16043 You Must Keep Track of your own Five Year Limit
  • No. 16053 Airline Must Comply with USERRA regarding Pensions
  • No. 16054 Retroactive Pay Increase and Section 4318 of USERRA
  • No. 16063 USERRA Rights of the Wounded Warrior
  • No. 16072 USERRA and the Career Intermission Program
  • No. 16094 New USERRA Lawsuit Filed against UAL over Pension Contributions, Sick Time Accrual, and Vacation Accrual
  • No. 16096 USERRA Overrides the Collective Bargaining Agreement
  • No. 16097 USERRA Obligations of the Administrator of a Multi-Employer Pension Plan
  • No. 16106 How Does Section 4318 of USERRA Apply to the Regular Military Retiree who Leaves a Federal Civilian Job To Return to Active Duty, Completes a Period of Voluntary Active Duty, Returns to Federal Civilian Employment, and then Retires?
  • No. 16112 You Are Not Required To Provide your Employer a Copy of your Orders when you Notify your Employer that you Active Duty Has Been Extended
  • No. 16116 New Federal Employee Should Make Deposit for Previous Active Duty
  • No. 16121 When I Return to Work after Military Service, How Much Will I Have To Pay To Reinstate my FERS Retirement Account?
  • No. 17047 Important New USERRA Case from the 6th Circuit
  • No. 17051 USERRA and the 401(k) Account at your Pre-Service Employer
  • No. 17067 Relationship between USERRA and State Law on Pension Entitlements for Public Employees Who Serve in the Reserve Components
  • No. 17071 ROA Members File Class Action Lawsuit against Southwest Airlines
  • No. 17073 New Case about USERRA and Disabled Veterans
  • No. 17090 Pension Credit for Military Service Time Is Not Limited to Five Years
  • No. 17092 Applying Section 4318 of USERRA to the Situation of a Returning National Guard Member
  • No. 17095 In Computing your Civilian Pension Benefit, the Employer Must Look to what you Would Have Earned in the Civilian Job but for your Military Service
  • No. 17096 Location Is an Aspect of Status
  • No. 17102 USERRA and the SCRA for the Military Recruiter
  • No. 17121 You Are Entitled to Seniority and Pension Credit for the Entire  Period that you Were away from your Job for Military Service
  • No. 18022 You Can Purchase Federal Civilian Retirement Credit for your Active Duty Time, and this Does Not Affect your Reserve Component Retirement at Age 60
  • No. 18032 The Railroad Retirement Board’s Treatment of Absence from Work for Military Service or Training Is Inconsistent with USERRA, But Unfortunately USERRA Does Not Apply
  • No. 18034 Right to Civilian Pension Credit for Military Service Prior to the Enactment of USERRA in 1994
  • No. 18037 State and Local Government Pension Funds Are in Sad Shape
  • No. 18038 You Must Use Your 22 Extra Days of Paid Military Leave During your Period of Contingency Active Duty
  • No. 18044 National Guard Bureau PowerPoint for Training National Guard Technicians Has It Wrong on USERRA
  • No. 18073 Air Force Memorandum on USERRA’s Five-Year Limit Needs To Be Rewritten
  • No. 18091 USERRA, the Five-Year Limit, and the Documentation Requirement
  • No. 18099 The Employer Is Required To Treat you as if you Had Been Continuously Employed in the Civilian Job for Civilian Pension Purposes, but only upon Reemployment under USERRA
  • No. 18103 USERRA, the SCRA, and Military Recruiting
  • No. 18105 Yes, you Can Qualify for Regular Military Retirement and Reemployment under USERRA and Civilian Pension Credit for your Military Service Time
  • No. 19004 Relationship between 5 U.S.C. 8332(c)(2) and 38 U.S.C. 4318
  • No. 19011 USERRA Rights of the Returning Veteran
  • No. 19024 USERRA and Pension Rights of Airline Pilots
  • No. 19025 More on the USERRA Pension Rights of the Airline Pilot
  • No. 19029 Employer Must Make Prompt Payments to Employee’s Retirement Account after Employee Returns from Military Service
  • No. 19031 USERRA Protects Absence from a Civilian Job for Military Medical Examination but not Treatment
  • No. 19032 Don’t Conflate the Five-Year Limit with the 90-day Deadline To Apply for Reemployment
  • No. 19044 New USERRA Class Action Lawsuit against American Airlines
  • No. 19052 Is she Entitled to Seniority and Pension Credit for the Entire Period of Absence from the Job Necessitated by her Service?
  • No. 19056 USERRA Coverage of National Guard Personnel
  • No. 19069 Federal Employee away from Work for Uniformed Service Is Entitled to Step Increase upon Reemployment, Not during Service
  • No. 19079 Military Service during your Career as a Federal Civilian Employee—What Effect on your Civilian Retirement?
  • No. 19083 USERRA Is a Floor and not a Ceiling
  • No. 19092 Under USERRA, You Are Entitled to Imputed Earnings during The Time You Were Away from Work for Service
  • No. 19093 USERRA Lawsuit against SWA Is Settled
  • No. 20026 Leave Active Duty and Apply for Reemployment and Return to Work To Obtain Civilian Pension Credit for the Period of Service
  • No. 20036 If you Are Convalescing from an Injury or Illness Incurred during Uniformed Service, you Can Delay your Application for Reemployment
  • No. 20041 If you Are Being Called to Active Duty, Don’t Forget about USERRA
  • No. 20043 USERRA’s Escalator Can Descend as well as Ascend
  • No. 20053 Returning to Work for a Different Federal Agency—Be Sure that you Get USERRA Pension Credit for your Period of Service
  • No. 20056 You Must Stay within the Five-Year Limit To Get USERRA Pension Credit for your Military Service Time.
  • No. 21008 If DOL-VETS Is Doing Well, you Should Stick with them
  • No. 21011 Public Sector Pension Funds Are in Sad Shape—Make Sure that you Have Been Credited for your Military Service Time, as Required by USERRA
  • No. 21012 USERRA Applies to Defined Contribution Pension Plans as well as Defined Benefit Plans
  • No. 21031 Pension Benefits for Employees Working through Hiring Halls whose Civilian Careers Are Interrupted by Military Service
  • No. 21040 In a Contributory Pension Plan, You Must Make Up the Missed Employee Contributions to the Pension Plan after you Return to Work.
  • No. 21045 Pension Credit for Military Service Time
  • No. 21051 Leave Active Duty and Apply for Reemployment before you Exceed the Five-Year Limit To Preserve your Pension.
  • No. 21057 USERRA’s Five-Year Limit for the National Guard Member.
  • No. 21059 Pension Rights upon Reemployment
  • No. 21064 DOJ Sues Guam for Violating USERRA
  • No. 21070 It Is Unlawful for an Employer To Discriminate against those who Have Served in the Military regarding Civilian Pension Entitlements.
  • No. 21081 Her Application for Reemployment Was Timely, and it Was Unlawful For the Employer to Make her Use PTO for the Week between her Release from Active Duty and her Application for Reemployment.
  • No. 21080 Your Employer Violated USERRA Willfully, But under Current Law You Are Not Entitled to Monetary Damages. USERRA Needs To Be Amended.
  • No. 22010 When You Leave a Federal Agency for Military Service, I Suggest that You Apply for Reemployment at the Same Agency, but Applying at a Different Agency May Not Be Fatal to Your Rights.
  • No. 22011 You Are Entitled to Federal Civilian Pension Credit for your 1988-91 Active Duty Period, But Not under USERRA.
  • No. 22012 Securing your Pension Rights when you Return to Federal Civilian Employment after Military Service
  • No. 22013 Another New Case on USERRA Pension Benefits in a Multi-Employer Pension Plan
  • No. 22036 Because Joe Smith Met the Five USERRA Conditions for his 2018-21 Active-Duty Period, You Must Give him Civilian Pension Credit for the Entire Period that he Was away from Work for Service.
  • No. 22065 USERRA Applies to Service in the Active Component of the Armed Forces, as well as National Guard and Reserve Service.
  • No. 22070 USERRA Requires the Employer To Fund the Returning Veteran’s Pension Account upon Reemployment.
  • No. 23001 USERRA, the SCRA, and Military Recruiting
  • No. 23011 Enforcing USERRA against a Private Employer
  • No. 23031 You Must Document that you Have Not Exceeded USERRA’s Five-Year Limit.

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