Section 6 - IMRF

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Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
A pre-populated Form 6.22 is created as part of the online enrollment process. The employer will download the
pre-populated form, sign it, have the employee sign it and mail it to IMRF along with the signed enrollment form.
(Please note: if the police chief is the first employee to enroll in SLEP for your employer, i.e., that your employer
does not have a SLEP plan, the online enrollment process will advise you to call IMRF’s Member Services for
assistance.)
Refer to Paragraph 3.80 for information on eligibility requirements for police chiefs.
Newly appointed police chiefs have 90 days from the date of hire to elect to participate in either the local police
fund or in IMRF SLEP. Failure to submit an election to either the local police fund or IMRF SLEP within those 90
days forfeits the police chief’s right to participate in either.
If the Police Chief chooses to join IMRF SLEP:
Once the police chief elects to participate in IMRF’s SLEP program, that election cannot be revoked.
Therefore, should a chief elect to participate in IMRF SLEP under employer A, upon changing positions
to a patrolman under employer A, or even a patrolman under employer B, the chief must continue to
participate under IMRF’s SLEP plan.
Before hiring a police chief, the employer may want to know if the police chief has any local police
pension plan service eligible for transfer into IMRF. After electing to join IMRF’s SLEP program, the
police chief may transfer police service previously established in any Illinois police pension fund to
IMRF. See Paragraph 630.13.
The chief may also wish to get an estimate of the cost to transfer any local police pension past service to
IMRF before making the choice of IMRF SLEP. IMRF recommends the police chief review and
evaluate the benefits of the local police pension fund and the SLEP Plan to determine which plan is most
advantageous.
If the Police Chief chooses to join the police pension fund:
If the police chief chooses to join the police pension fund, the police chief can decide to join IMRF’s
SLEP program at a later date if he is still a police chief for a qualifying IMRF SLEP employer.
If the Police Chief chooses to join neither SLEP nor the police pension fund:
If the police chief chooses not to join the IMRF SLEP program nor the police pension fund, the police
chief will not be able to join the IMRF SLEP program at a later date as a police chief.
6.10 H. Election to Contribute Under Additional Position (Form 6.23, Exhibit 6U)
Form 6.23, “Election to Contribute Under Additional Position” should be used for a member who currently
participates in IMRF and wants to make member contributions in an elected position which does not qualify for
participation in and of itself.
Use this form for an IMRF member who currently works in a qualifying position, who also holds a nonqualifying
elective office with the same employer, and who wants to make member contributions under the additional
position.
If the member’s second position is a non-qualifying elective office position and that position becomes qualifying at
a later date, the member cannot revoke this election to participate under that elected position.
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