These governmental units have established a fire pension fund or are required by law to do so. They first came
under Social Security either in 1957 as a member of IMRF or when they joined IMRF thereafter.
Firefighters do not participate in IMRF because
The governmental units
Firefighters are not in IMRF even if they do not participate in the local fire fund. (See the exception for firefighters performing non-fire protection duties 3.85 D. Non-Fire Earnings.)
Exception: If your fire chief is part-time but works enough hours to qualify for IMRF, the chief will participate in IMRF.
Firefighters are not covered by Social Security when they are:
Firefighters are covered by Social Security when they are:
If a regular employee who participates in IMRF also serves as a part-time firefighter, only his or her earnings as a regular employee are IMRF earnings. The firefighting earnings are not reported to IMRF but are reported to Social Security.
A fire chief who participates in the fire pension fund is not covered for Social Security.
A chief who does not participate in the fire pension fund is covered by Social Security unless the municipality provides an alternative pension plan.
Prior to 1995, a fire chief who was ineligible to participate in the fire pension plan because of age or physical condition participated in IMRF. Exclusions for age and physical fitness were removed from the Fire Pension Fund Act, therefore, fire chiefs hired after June 30, 1995, are ineligible to participate in IMRF.
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Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Alsip Alton Arlington Heights Aurora Batavia Beach Park Belleville Bellwood Belvidere Berwyn Bloomingdale Bloomington Blue Island Bolingbrook Bradley Bridgeview Brookfield Buffalo Grove Burbank Cairo Canton Carbondale Carpentersville Centralia Champaign Chicago Heights Cicero Clinton Coal City Collinsville Crystal Lake Danville Darien Decatur Deerfield DeKalb DesPlaines Dixon Dolton Downers Grove East Alton East Moline East Peoria East St. Louis Edwardsville Elgin Elk Grove Village Elmhurst
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Elmwood Park Evanston Evergreen Park Ford Heights Forest Park Forest View Fox Lake Franklin Park Freeport Galesburg Geneva Glencoe Glenview Godfrey Granite City Gurnee Hampshire Harrisburg Harvey Hickory Hills Highland Park Highwood Hinsdale Hoffman Estates Homewood Jacksonville Joliet Kankakee Kewanee LaGrange Lake Forest Lansing LaSalle Lemont Libertyville Lincoln Lombard Macomb Marion Mattoon Maywood McCook Melrose Park Midlothian Moline Monmouth Mt. Prospect Mt. Vernon
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Mt. Zion Naperville North Chicago Northlake Oak Forest Oak Lawn Oak Park Orland Park Ottawa Palos Hills Paris Park Forest Park Ridge Pekin Peoria Peru Princeton Prospect Heights Quincy River Forest Riverdale Robbins Rochelle Rockford Rock Island Rolling Meadows Schaumburg Schiller Park Skokie South Beloit Springfield St Charles Sterling Streamwood Streator Sullivan Sycamore University Park Urbana Washington Park Waukegan West Frankfort Western Springs Wheaton Wilmette Winnetka Wood River Woodstock Worth |
Fire protection district firefighters in all districts, irrespective of population, come under the rules that apply to governmental units with 5,000 or more in population.
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Addison Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Antioch Township Barrington-Countryside Bartlett/Countryside Beach Park Bensenville Bloomingdale Bristol-Kendall Byron Cary Central Stickney Chatham Cherry Valley
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Countryside Darien-Woodridge Deerfield-Bannockburn East Dundee Elburn/Countryside Frankfort Glen Carbon Grayslake Greater Round Lake Huntley Itasca Lemont Leyden Lisle-Woodridge
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Lockport Township Long Grove Manhattan Marshall Minooka Morris Neoga New Lenox North Aurora North Maine North Palos North Park Norwood Park Oswego Palatine Rural |
Palos Heights Plainfield Pleasantview Prospect Heights Roberts Park Signal Hill Sugar Grove Sullivan Tri-State Troy Warrenville Wauconda West Chicago Wood Dale |