Who is eligible to receive an ordinary disability retirement allowance?

• Non-Job Related Incapacitation
  Any member is eligible whose permanent incapacitation, due to sickness or injury that is not job-related, prevents him/her from performing the essential duties of his/her position.

Is there a service requirement?

• Non-Veterans
  Service requirements vary. Applicants who file for ordinary disability retirement on or after January 12, 1988, from the State Retirement System, the Teachers’ Retirement System, and any other system that has accepted the provisions of G. L. c. 32 § 6(1), must have been granted at least ten years of creditable service. Most systems have accepted this provision. All other applicants must have been granted at least fifteen years of creditable service.
  
  
• Veterans
  Members who are veterans must have been granted at least ten years of creditable service.