Gierschick v. State Employees' Retirement Board

RODGERS, Senior Judge.

Joseph W. Gierschick, Jr. (Claimant) petitions for review of a State Employees’ Retirement Board’s (Board) order that required him to forfeit his retirement benefits pursuant to the Public Employee Pension Forfeiture Act (Act 140)1 earned up to and including the date of his guilty plea *31for committing perjury before a federal grand jury. We affirm.

The facts of this case, as set forth by the State Employees’ Retirement System. (SERS) hearing examiner, are as follows. When he started work in June 1981 as a corrections officer with the Department of Corrections at Graterford…