SD8 - Retirement Benefits for Volunteer Firefighters and Rescue Squad Personnel

  • Published: 1987
  • Author: Virginia Supplemental Retirement System
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 30 (Regular Session, 1986)

Executive Summary:
SJR 30 was approved by the 1986 General Assembly for the purpose of studying the feasibility of providing retirement benefits to volunteer firefighters and rescue squad personnel.

The resolution directed the Virginia Supplemental Retirement System (VSRS) to conduct the study and to report the results to the General Assembly.

The scope of the study resulting from SJR 30 consisted of an examination of the experiences of other states; discussions with the State officials and representatives of the associations representing volunteer firefighters and volunteer rescue squad personnel; and discussions with the VSRS' consulting actuary.