Part 5001 - Service Credit

Section 5001.2 - General 

Credit for service shall be granted as follows in computing benefits:

(a) No credit shall be given for less than 20 days of service in a school year.

(b) One day shall be the length of the school district's regular session, but, with the exception of SUNY and community college faculty members, in no event less than five hours. Anything in the foregoing notwithstanding, effective for service rendered on or after July 1, 1993, where the length of the full time work day established for teaching assistants employed by a school district is less than the length of the school district's regular session but is at least six hours, a day for the purposes of determining the annualized contract salary of members who are employed as teaching assistants by such district on other than a full-time per annum basis shall be the length of such full time work day.

(c) Twenty days shall equal one month.

(d) Credit for more than 20 days shall be computed as follows:

       20 to 29 days = 1 month           90 to 109 days = 5 months
       30 to 49 days = 2 months        110 to 129 days = 6 months
       50 to 69 days = 3 months        130 to 149 days = 7 months
       70 to 89 days = 4 months        150 to 169 days = 8 months
       170 and above = 1 year

(Statutory authority: Education Law, §§ 501, subd. 11, 19; 503, subd.3; 509; 511-a, subd. 3; [Military Law §244-a;] Retirement and Social Security Law, §§ 446, subd. d, e; 513 subd. d, e; 609, subd. d, e; 1000)