4.3 Years of Participation and Disability If you are on paid long or short-term disability and the employer makes the required contributions, you are granted participation credit. You become 100% vested in your employer contributions at 5 years. 4.4 Credit in a Dual Position If you are employed by the same employer in a TRF My Choice covered and non-covered positions, contributions are paid from the portion of the annual compensation attributable to the TRF My Choice covered position. NOTE: A member working in a PERF and TRF My Choice covered positions simultaneously can only earn 1 year of participation in My Choice. 4.5 Reinstatement of Participation Credit If your employment in a PERF My Choice position is involuntarily terminated, and you are later reinstated with a court order, then you may be eligible for employer and employee contributions as provided in the court order. Otherwise, there are no reinstatements of years of participation. As a TRF My Choice member, if you separate from one participating entity in the TRF My Choice Plan, you retain your accumulated years of participation if you are hired by another participating entity. 4.6 Additional Participation Credit Members in the TRF My Choice Plan are not able to purchase additional participation credit. TRF My Choice: Retirement Savings Plan Member Page 14 of 30 Handbook Effective: 07/01/2024