About Fairfax County Retirement Systems

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The Fairfax County Retirement Systems office is responsible for managing Fairfax County's three defined benefit pension system. The office is lead by an Executive Director and is comprised of a great team of 32 employees who are responsible for serving the members of the three systems. Each system has its own investment portfolio of assets and is governed by a Board of Trustees.

The Employees' Retirement System

The Fairfax County Supplemental Retirement System was established on July 1, 1955. On February 26, 2001, the name of the System was changed to the Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System. In previous years, Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System reported the plan as a cost sharing multiple employer defined benefit plan.

The System is considered as a single employer public employee retirement system providing defined benefit pension plan coverage to its members.

In 1974, certain public safety members of the system were moved to the then-new Uniformed Retirement S

The Police Officers Retirement System

The Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System is the oldest of Fairfax County's retirement systems, and was created under authority granted by Chapter 303 of the Acts of Assembly (law of the Commonwealth of Virginia) on March 29, 1944, to provide defined benefit pension plan coverage for sworn full-time law enforcement officers of the Fairfax County Police Department.

In 1981 Fairfax County enacted Article 7 of the Fairfax County Code, which adopted and continued Chapter 303 as amended.

The System is considered as a single employer public employee retirement syste

The Uniformed Retirement System

The Fairfax County Uniformed Retirement System was established on July 1, 1974, as a public employee retirement system providing defined benefit pension plan coverage for select public safety employees.

In 2005, membership was extended to employees in non-administrative positions of the Department of Public Safety Communications, formerly included in the Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System.

The System is considered as a single employer public employee retirement system providing defined benefit pension plan coverage to its members.

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