Creditable Compensation - Allotments

The Texas Legislature has passed allotments to provide pay increases to classroom teachers and other support staff including:

• Teacher Retention Allotment (TRA) 
• Support Staff Retention Allotment (SSRA)
• Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA)

Any compensation paid with funds from one of these allotment types is considered creditable compensation for TRS purposes.

• Allotments earned by an active employee are reported as TRS-Eligible Compensation on the Regular Payroll (RP) report in the report month paid.
• Allotment payments are reported under the primary position code, and are subject to Statutory Minimum contributions.
• If a TRS retiree, with a retirement date after Sept. 1, 2005, exceeds the one-half time limits, pension surcharge is due on any TRS creditable compensation paid in the month they exceed, including Allotment compensation.