Social Security and Your Metro Pension
Metro's service pension benefits and Social Security benefits are independent of one another — that is, the amount that you get from one will not be reduced by the other.
Disability benefits, which are provided under Metro's pension plan, are reduced if you qualify to receive Social Security disability benefits. However, your combined disability benefit from Metro and Social Security may actually be greater than your disability benefit from Metro alone. (For an example of how Metro and Social Security benefits disability benefits work together, see Disability Pension Benefits under the Income Protection section of this binder.)