New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 21 - Miscellaneous
Chapter LVIII - New York State Teachers' Retirement System
Part 5001 - Service Credit
Section 5001.2 - General
Current through Register Vol. 45, No. 52, December 27, 2023
Credit for service shall be granted as follows in computing benefits:
(a) No credit shall be given for less than 20 days of service in a school year.
(b) One day shall be the length of the school district's regular session, but, with the exception of SUNY and community college faculty members, in no event less than five hours. Anything in the foregoing notwithstanding, effective for service rendered on or after July 1, 1993, where the length of the full-time work day established for teaching assistants employed by a school district is less than the length of the school district's regular session but is at least six hours, a day for the purposes of determining the annualized contract salary of members who are employed as teaching assistants by such district on other than a full-time per annum basis shall be the length of such full- time work day.
(c) Twenty days shall equal one month.
(d) Credit for more than 20 days shall be computed as follows:
20 to 29 days = 1 month
30 to 49 days = 2 months
50 to 69 days = 3 months
70 to 89 days = 4 months
90 to 109 days = 5 months
110 to 129 days = 6 months
130 to 149 days = 7 months
150 to 169 days = 8 months
170 and above = 1 year
