Leaving Employment: 4 Options

If you terminate your employment with your participating employer, you will have an important choice to make regarding your ACERA retirement benefits. You may take one of the following actions:

  1. Defer Your Membership

(leave your contributions on deposit and remain an ACERA member)

  1. Establish Reciprocity With Another Retirement System

(while becoming a deferred ACERA member)

  1. Withdraw Your Retirement Contributions

(and end ACERA membership)

  1. Retire