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N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.20 Retroactive pay: State service

N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.20, Retroactive pay: State service. Personnel actions having retroactive effective dates shall apply only to employees who remain on a State payroll on the date of the retroactive payment and empl Full text with 1 recorded amendment, 4 citing decisions.

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Current through New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 14, July 20, 2026. Reviewed as of July 26, 2026.

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In plain language

Two groups collect on a retroactive personnel action and everybody else is excluded. The general requirement is to remain on a State payroll on the date the retroactive payment is made. The single carve-out covers employees who retire or die during the period the retroactivity covers, so leaving through retirement or death partway through does not forfeit the money. Anyone who resigned, was separated, or otherwise came off the payroll before the payment date falls outside the rule as written. Thirty six words, and all of it turns on timing rather than on who earned the pay.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.20. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

Personnel actions having retroactive effective dates shall apply only to employees who remain on a State payroll on the date of the retroactive payment and employees who retire or die during the period of retroactive application.

Amendment history

Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 1 recorded change.

  1. AmendedR.1993 d.424
    25 N.J.R. 1916(a); 25 N.J.R. 4064(a)

How this rule has been applied

4 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.20. The list below is citations to those decisions, not the decisions. We have not written summaries for this section. A citation with no summary is deliberate: we do not paraphrase a decision we have not read. Nothing here is legal advice.

New Jersey Supreme Court (1)
  • State Troopers Fraternal Ass'n of New Jersey, Inc. v. State149 N.J. 38; 692 A.2d 5191997
Civil Service Commission final determinations (3)
  • In re Curtis, Office of the State Comptroller, CSC Docket No. 2019-11472019 N.J. CSC LEXIS 377Docket 2019-1147
  • In re Commc'n Workers of Am., AFL-CIO, CSC Docket No. 2019-29822019 N.J. CSC LEXIS 292Docket 2019-2982
  • In re William Moleins, Dep't. of Corr., CSC Dkt. No. 2012-16102013 N.J. CSC LEXIS 822

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