You can add up to four years of military service credit to your Mississippi state retirement, sometimes free and sometimes by purchase, which can let you draw retirement pay earlier. Free credit is for service completed before you entered or re-entered state employment. Purchased credit is for military service that interrupted your public service, and requires the member and employer contributions to be paid.
Contact the Mississippi Public Employees’ Retirement System at 800-444-7377 or 601-359-3589, or email customerservice@pers.ms.gov, and submit a copy of your DD214.
A copy of your DD214 or equivalent. For National Guard and Reserve service, PERS requires a DD214 for federal active duty and will not accept an NGB Form 22 or a Chronological Statement of Retirement Points.
