HD7 - Retirement Benefits for Part-Time Instructional Personnel

  • Published: 1991
  • Author: Virginia Retirement System
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 182 (Regular Session, 1990)

Executive Summary:
House Joint Resolution 182 directed the VRS to study the effectiveness and appropriateness of extending retirement benefits to part-time teachers.

The extension of such benefits would be for teachers who interrupted a career to begin a family or to care for family members who would otherwise be deprived of familial care.

The study revealed that strong support and/or demand for benefits for part-time teachers was not evident from either teachers or local school divisions. As a result of. those findings and the current fiscal limitations at both the state and local levels, the extension of retirement benefits to part time teachers at this time would not be appropriate.