Judicial Benefit Multiplier Program

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PERS Members with Past Judicial Service
If you are a PERS member who is not currently serving as judge or justice, you may increase your past judicial service. Your request to increase must be made between January 1, 2009 and June 30, 2009. You do not need to be a JBM participant.

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Judicial Benefit Multiplier (JBM) Program
If you are serving as a judge or justice and join PERS membership or re-establish TRS membership on January 1, 2007, or later, you are required to join the JBM Program.
In the JBM Program, you:

Prospectively accrue service credit at a higher benefit multiplier for all judicial service;
Will pay a higher contribution rate;
Are subject to the JBM benefit cap; and
Will not participate in the Judicial Retirement Account (JRA).

If you were in judicial service on December 31, 2006 and January 1, 2007, and a member of PERS Plan 1, 2 or 3 or TRS Plan 1, you had the option of joining the JBM Program. If you elected into JBM, you have the additional option to increase the judicial service credit you earned before joining JBM to the higher benefit multiplier. There are two cost methods to purchase past judicial service:

Actuarial method which is available at any time; and
Percent of Salary at Retirement method available only at the time you apply for retirement. This method is available for judges retiring on or after July 1, 2008.

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