Employees nearing retirement from TRS may present their Reporting Employer (RE) with a TRS 587 – Certification of Unused State Sick and/or Personal Leave and ask the employer to complete the certification. This form is not accepted by TRS earlier than 30 days prior to the employee’s effective date of retirement and should not be filled out until the total number of remaining state leave days are known.
An electronic certification of this form is currently not available in the RE Portal. At this time, TRS only accepts the physical form.
An RE can fill out this form only if the employee has at least 50 days or 400 hours of unused state sick and/or personal leave.
This does not include any local days or leave amounts. If your employer does not offer state sick days, you cannot complete this form.
TRS does not govern or regulate the payout of state leave days to an employee after retirement. It’s important to note that the employee is not trading in their unused days to gain a year of TRS service credit. Having at least 50 days or 400 hours of unused state sick or personal leave at the time of retirement grants the TRS member an opportunity to purchase a year of service from TRS.
In addition, the employee must have at least 10 years of total TRS service to fulfill this requirement, as no more than five days per year may be accumulated for certification.
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1. When filling out this form, make sure the employee’s full name, Social Security number or TRS ID, and name of employer have been completed by the employee.
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2. Write in either the number of unused state sick/personal days or hours being certified.
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3. Enter the date the form was completed. The form can only be signed by those with signature authority in the RE Portal.
