5.50 Reciprocity

The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund is one of 13 public employee retirement systems covered by the Illinois Retirement Systems’ Reciprocal Act - Article 20 of the Pension Code. The other 12 systems covered by the Reciprocal Act are:

County Employees’ Annuity & Benefit Fund of Cook County
70.W Madison St., Suite 1925
Chicago, Illinois 60602
Phone: 312-603-1200 --- Fax: 312-603-9760
www.cookcountypension.com

Forest Preserve District Employees’ Annuity & Benefit Fund of Cook County
70.W Madison St., Suite 1925
Chicago, Illinois 60602
Phone: 312-603-1200 --- Fax: 312-603-9760
www.cookcountypension.com

General Assembly Retirement System
2101 South Veterans Parkway
P.O. Box 19255
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9255
Phone: 217-782-8500 --- Fax: 217-524-9039
http://www.state.il.us/srs/GARS/home_gars.htm

Judges’ Retirement System
2101 South Veterans Parkway
P.O. Box 19255
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9255
Phone: 217-782-8500 --- Fax: 217-524-9039
http://www.state.il.us/srs/Judges/home_jrs.htm

Laborers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund
321 North Clark Street - Suite 1300
Chicago, Illinois 60654-4739
Phone: 312-236-2065 --- Fax: 312-236-0574
http://www.labfchicago.org/

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Retirement Fund
111 East Erie Street - Suite 330
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2898
Phone:. 312-751-3222 --- Fax: 312-751-5699
http://www.mwrdgc.dst.il.us/

Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago
321 North LaSalle Street - Suite 700
Chicago, Illinois 60654-4767
Phone: 312-236-4700 --- Fax: 312-527-0192
www.meabf.org

Park Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago
55 East Monroe Street - Suite 2720
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Phone: 312-553-9265 --- Fax: 312-553-9114
www.chicagoparkpension.org

Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago
203 N. LaSalle Street - Suite 2600
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Phone: 312-641-4464 --- Fax: 312-641-7185
http://www.ctpf.org/

State Employees’ Retirement System
2101 South Veterans Parkway, P.O. Box 19255
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9255
Phone: 217-785-7444 --- Fax: 217-524-2293
https://www.srs.illinois.gov/SERS/home_sers.htm

Chicago Office:
Michael A. Bilandic Building
160 N. LaSalle Street, Suite S200
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312-814-5853 --- Fax: 312-814-5805

Teachers’ Retirement System
2815 W. Washington Street - P.O. Box 19253
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9253
Phone: 877-927-5877 --- (877-9-ASK-TRS)
Fax: 217-787-2269
http://www.trsil.org

Lisle Office:
4200 Commerce Court - Suite 101
Lisle, Illinois 60532-3611
Phone: 877-927-5877 --- (877-9-ASK-TRS)
Fax: 217-787-2269

State Universities Retirement System
1901 Fox Drive, P.O. Box 2710
Champaign, Illinois 61825-2710
Phone: 217-378-8800 or 800-275-7877 --- Fax: 217-378-9800
http://www.surs.org

Local police and fire pension funds are not covered by the Retirement Systems’ Reciprocal Act. There is no reciprocity between police and fire pension funds and IMRF. Also, reciprocal service credit cannot be used in the calculation of a SLEP or ECO pension.

Learn more about reciprocity from the topics below:

  1. Purpose of Reciprocal Act

  2. Form of the Reciprocal Act

  3. Proportional Annuities

  4. Concurrent Reciprocal Service

  5. Reciprocal Applications

  6. Repayment of Refunds