Tier 3

Overview

Tier 3

Your Tier is generally determined by your title and the date you joined NYCERS.

You are a NYCERS Tier 3 member if you are a:

  • Uniformed Correction Force member who joined NYCERS on or after July 27, 1976; OR
  • Uniformed Sanitation Force members, Uniformed Correction Force members or District Attorney Investigators who became employed in such title on or after April 1, 2012, are enrolled into a modified Tier 3 22-Year Retirement Plan. 

New members in a Tier 3 job title are limited to participation in the 22-Year retirement plan only. All other Tier 3 retirement plans are closed to new members. Learn about Membership/Tier Reinstatement

If you cease to be employed in any of the titles above, you will no longer be a Tier 3 member and your new tier will be determined by the date you joined NYCERS:

  • Tier 4 – Joined NYCERS between July 27, 1976, and March 31, 2012
  • Tier 6 - Joined NYCERS on or after April 1, 2012

For complete details about Tier 3 and its Retirement Plans, please refer to the Summary Plan Description, Brochures, and Fact Sheets linked below. 

Brochure 920

Correction Officer 25-Year Retirement Plan
Brochure #920

This brochure describes the benefits of the Correction Officer 25-Year Retirement Plan (CO-25 Plan). The CO-25 Plan is available ONLY to members of the uniformed force of the NYC Department of Correction who became Tier 3 NYCERS members before December 19, 1990 (the start date of the Correction Officer 20-Year Plan).

Brochure 918

Correction Officer 20-Year Retirement Plan
Brochure #918

This brochure describes the benefits of the Correction Officer 20-Year Retirement Plan (CO-20 Plan). The CO-20 Plan is available ONLY to NYCERS members employed by the NYC Department of Correction in a Correction Officer Title below the rank of Captain (COT) for the first time prior to October 19, 2004.

Brochure

Correction Captain 20-Year Retirement Plan
Brochure #919

This brochure describes the benefits of the 20-Year Retirement Plan for Correction Officers of the rank of Captain or above (CC-20 Plan). The CC-20 Plan is available ONLY to NYCERS members of the rank of Captain or above who became employed by the NYC Department of Correction in a Correction Officer Title (COT) for the first time prior to October 19, 2004.