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 systems. The office is led by an Executive Director and includes of a great team of 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 Retireme

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 started on July 1, 1974. It was created to give certain public safety workers a pension, which is a type of retirement plan that pays you monthly after you retire.

In 2005, the membership was expanded to include employees in non‑administrative jobs in the Department of Public Safety Communications. Before that, these employees were part of the Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System.

The System is considered a single employer public employee retirement system that offers defined‑benefit pensions to its members

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