Fairfax County Retirement Systems

04/28/2025

VIRTUAL MEETING: The Health of Your Pension on May 8, 2025, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Join us to learn about the health of your Fairfax County pension.

-The 3 Sources of Funding
-How Funding is Determined by the Actuary
-The Assumptions Used by the Actuary When Determining Funding
-How the Systems are PRE-Funded
-How the Systems' Investments are Well-Diversified
-The Role of Staff and the Boards of Trustees in Investing the Systems' Assets

In addition, we will be ready to answer your questions or discuss anything else of interest.

We look forward to having you attend the event!

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10/25/2024

October marks National Retirement Security Month. We want to assure all Fairfax County retirees that our team is dedicated to ensuring the security and consistent availability of your retirement benefits every month.

09/12/2024

Our Police Officers Retirement System Board of Trustees just celebrated a major milestone. Just over 80 years ago, on August 23,1944, the Police Department Pension Board held its first meeting.

Starting with just over $5,000 in assets in 1944, the Police Officers Retirement System has grown to nearly $2 billion in assets. It’s a tribute to the visionary leaders back then, as well as the many fine people who have served as Trustees since then, for creating and nurturing the system to where it is today.

09/05/2024

Many of you are receiving Social Security, or soon will be. We came across an interesting article explaining some changes coming to Social Security in the next year. You can find it at the following link:

The Social Security Administration won't announce any final adjustments until the second week of October, but we can expect these three changes to take place in 2025.

09/02/2024

Happy Labor Day! Thank you to all of our 18,508 active employee and 12,803 retired members for your dedicated service to Fairfax County over the years.

Fairfax would not be what it is today without your hard work and passion for public service.

08/29/2024

Some of you have asked about Medicare and your health benefits. Click on the following link to open up the County's Human Resources Department's guidance on Medicare.

Fairfax County, Virginia - Becoming Medicare Eligible

08/26/2024

Good news! All 3 retirement systems investment returns were good this past fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 the tentative investment returns were as follows:

Employees' Retirement System + 9.1%
Police Officers Retirement System + 11.2%
Uniformed Retirement System + 10.3%

These return numbers may change a little bit, as our Accounting Team completes the annual financial reports for FY 2024. But they should not change much.

All 3 systems' annual investment returns exceeded the 6.75% investment return assumption used by our actuary to determine the County's annual contributions to the systems. While there are other factors that affect the funding of the systems, it is always good when the systems' returns exceed the actuary's assumed return as it did this past year. Hats off to the systems' Chief Investment Officers for all of their hard work and expertise, as well as the dedication of the systems' Boards of Trustees.

08/15/2024

It's National Relaxation Day! Take some time and relax. If your are one of our active employee members, hopefully you have had some time this summer to relax and do something fun. To our retired members, here's hoping that you are having a happy and relaxed retirement. If there is anything we can do to help, please leave a note in the comments.

08/08/2024

Welcome, members of Fairfax County's retirement systems, to our new page.

As we dive into the world of social media, we are excited to join our active and retired members on Facebook. Our aim is to provide valuable insights and updates on your Fairfax County retirement benefits. Your feedback is invaluable to us, so feel free to share any topics you'd like us to cover or questions you may have in the comments section. Together, let's make navigating retirement a breeze!