Improving Our Service to You!
We’re making improvements to Retirement Online to better serve you. To accomplish this, we need to temporarily suspend service. Beginning 6:00 pm Thursday, December 21 until 7:00 am Friday, January 6 Retirement Online will be unavailable.
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Make the Switch to Enhanced Reporting NOW
More than 1,400 NYSLRS employers are now using Retirement Online enhanced reporting. All employers must switch by the end of this year. To begin enhanced reporting, email the NYSLRS Gold Certification team.
See which employers and payroll companies have completed Gold Certification.
Billing Information Available in Retirement Online
You can now review a projection of your invoice that will be due February 1, 2025 and an estimate of your invoice that will be due February 1, 2024 (do not send payment now).
You can also view your GASB report for fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.
Sign in to Retirement Online. From your Account Homepage, click the “Access Billing Dashboard” button. You must have the billing security role to access the dashboard. For more information, visit the Contact and Security Administrator Roles page.
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Report a Data Security Breach — Employers who are experiencing a data security breach or ransomware attack may not be able to access Retirement Online and submit monthly reports. These incidents put the safety and security of your data at risk, and they have the potential to affect those you share data with, like the Retirement System.
If your location’s operations are affected by a security breach or ransomware attack, contact NYSLRS immediately. Call our help desk at 844-619-9614 and press 1. We’ll help you continue to work with NYSLRS while your normal operations are interrupted.
Retiree Earnings Limit — If you have hired a retired employee, you should be aware of laws governing how much retirees can earn in post-retirement employment without affecting their pension. Generally, post-retirement earnings are not limited if your employee retired under a service retirement benefit and they are age 65 or older or make less than $35,000. If a retiree exceeds the earnings limit and continues to work, their pension benefits will be suspended for the remainder of the calendar year.
However, the earnings limit was temporarily suspended by executive order through much of 2020 and 2021, all of 2022, and from January 1, 2023 through June 22, 2023. Recent legislation has also suspended the earnings limit for retirees employed by school districts and BOCES through June 30, 2024. If you have retired employees who have questions about the suspension of the limit, share our Retiree Earnings Limit blog post with them. It will be updated if new executive orders affect the earnings limit.
