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N.J.A.C. 4A:6-3.1 Eligibility: State service

N.J.A.C. 4A:6-3.1, Eligibility: State service. The following employees shall be eligible for supplemental compensation on retirement ("SCOR"): 1. State employees in the career service and employees in th Full text with 1 recorded amendment, 8 citing decisions, cited by 1 other rule.

Leaves, Hours of Work, and Employee Development · Supplemental Compensation on Retirement

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

Supplemental compensation on retirement, or SCOR, is a State service payment, and eligibility turns on status and on how the employment ends. Career service employees qualify, as do senior executive service employees with underlying permanent career status. Senior executive employees without that status, and unclassified employees, qualify only where everyone in the title receives sick leave in the same number and manner as State career employees under N.J.A.C. 4A:6-1.3, used and verified the same way under N.J.A.C. 4A:6-1.4 and 1.5. Certain university employees doing comparable work are covered too. The payment attaches to separation by retirement from a State-administered pension system, so deferred retirement and any separation that is not a retirement fall outside it. Removal for cause after a hearing opportunity, retirement in lieu of removal, and retirement in circumstances warranting removal all disqualify, unless removal rested on medical disability or the Commission finds sufficient mitigating circumstances. Accidental and ordinary disability retirements are eligible.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:6-3.1. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

(a) The following employees shall be eligible for supplemental compensation on retirement ("SCOR"): #

1. State employees in the career service and employees in the senior executive service with underlying permanent career service status; #

2. State employees in job titles in the senior executive service without permanent career service status and in the unclassified service who have been granted sick leave under the following standards: #

i. All employees in that job title are granted sick leave days in the same number and manner as set forth for State career service employees in N.J.A.C. 4A:6-1.3; #

ii. Sick leave for all employees in that job title is used, reported, and subject to verification in the same manner required for State career service employees in N.J.A.C. 4A:6-1.4 and 1.5. #

3. Employees of Rutgers, the State University; the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, who perform services similar to those performed by employees of the New Jersey State Colleges who are in the career service, or who have been granted sick leave under the standards set forth in (a)2 above. #

(b) Employees in the categories in (a) above shall be eligible for SCOR upon separation from employment based on retirement from a pension system administered by the State of New Jersey. #

1. Employees removed for cause after an opportunity for a hearing, who retire in lieu of removal, or who retire under circumstances which would warrant removal, shall not be eligible for SCOR. However, the Chairperson or designee may allow SCOR in such cases where removal was based on a medical disability or where the Commission finds sufficient mitigating circumstances to warrant supplemental compensation. #

2. Employees who retire as a result of accidental or ordinary disability, and who meet all other applicable rules, shall be eligible for SCOR. #

3. Employees of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who are members of the Newark Employees' Retirement System, and who meet all other applicable rules, shall be eligible for SCOR. #

4. Employees who elect deferred retirement, or whose separation from employment is not based on retirement, shall not be eligible for SCOR. #

5. Faculty members of the State Colleges; Rutgers, the State University; the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who have served in an administrative capacity may be eligible for SCOR based on the time served in that administrative capacity only. Such employees, if deemed eligible, shall be entitled to payment based on sick leave and salary earned while serving in an administrative title. #

Amendment history

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

  1. AmendedR.2016 d.171
    48 N.J.R. 5(a); 48 N.J.R. 2775(b)

How this rule has been applied

8 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:6-3.1. 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.

Superior Court (1)
  • Matter of Wargo229 N.J.Super. 284; 551 A.2d 205
Civil Service Commission final determinations (7)
  • In re W.F., Ancora Psychiatric Hosp., Dep't of Health, CSC Docket No. 2022-4952022 N.J. CSC LEXIS 196Docket 2022-495
  • SCOR. In re Coppola, Palisades Interstate Pk. Comm'n, CSC Docket No. 2021-17612021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 348Docket 2021-1761
  • In re Ching-Ching Tang, Dep't of Educ. Student Assistant Auth., et al., CSC Docket Nos. 2021-925 and 2021-1704, (Consolidated)2021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 308Docket 2021-925 and 2021-1704
  • In re the Estate of Policastro, Dep't of Law & Pub. Safety, CSC Docket No. 2019-29542019 N.J. CSC LEXIS 423Docket 2019-2954
  • In re Estate of Levin, Office of Legislative Servs., CSC Docket No. 2019-19522019 N.J. CSC LEXIS 157Docket 2019-1952
  • In re Nah, Office of the Pub. Defender, CSC Docket No. 2018-32242018 N.J. CSC LEXIS 551Docket 2018-3224
  • In re Close, Motor Vehicle Comm'n, CSC Docket No. 2014-26242014 N.J. CSC LEXIS 731Docket 2014-2624

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