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About your membershipLeaving your employerSurvivor benefits and disability benefitsSeparation and divorcePlan changesRetirement

About your membership

Joining the Plan

Your personal Pension Report

Pension estimates

Buy-back waiting period

Dual membership

Retroactive adjustments to contributory earnings 

Leaving your employer

Termination estimates

Termination pension options form

Commuted value election

Survivor benefits and disability benefits

Survivor options form

Disability application process

Separation and divorce

Separation and family law value

Statement of family law value (FLV)

Calculating the family law value (FLV)

Dividing the Plan benefit

Post-division impact to your pension

Death benefits

Plan changes

Elimination of the 35-year cap

Amendment to normal retirement age (NRA) conversions from 65 to 60

Extending leave purchase deadlines

Reducing or eliminating the 36-month employment requirement for purchases of periods of reduced pay

Permitting temporary layoffs as purchasable service

Non-full-time expansion

Shared Risk Indexing (SRI)

Retirement

Retirement options form

Retirement Compensation Arrangement