§ 20933 Prior Service Credit Eligibility

• •If you worked for a company before and then joined their retirement plan later, you can still get credit for the time you worked before joining.
• •You must join the retirement plan either on the day the company starts offering it or within three years of leaving your old job.
• •This rule helps people who switch jobs but want to keep their old work time counted for retirement.

Imagine you worked at a school for 2 years, then quit. A year later, the school offers a retirement plan. You join it right away.

You can still count those 2 years you worked before joining the plan toward your retirement.