Retirement Procedures for Activated State Employees

An MS-310 transaction will be required for employees on Military Administrative Leave (difference-in-pay program) to discontinue the employee’s retirement system contribution.  Employees on activated military duty will not continue to make retirement contributions.

Use the following information to process the MS-310:

In the Comments Section, agencies should use the following:

Change to Retirement System


In Section 31-Ret.Sys., agencies should use the following code:

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NOTE:  When the employee returns from active military duty, the agency will have to re-submit the MS-310 changing the Retirement System code back to the appropriate system code.  This transaction will start the employee’s contributions once again.