Employer Update

How soon should new employees register for a myVRS account?

Members should register and claim their myVRS accounts within 30 to 45 days after starting work.

VRS encourages employers to enroll new employees in myVRS Navigator on or before their scheduled start dates. When you enroll a new employee, you provide the employee's demographic data, annual salary, contract start date, contract period and the number of months the employee will be paid, if on a contract. myVRS Navigator uses these figures to calculate the employee's creditable compensation and to determine when to post creditable compensation and service credit based on the date employment starts.

This is particularly important when enrolling Hybrid Retirement Plan members so they can elect voluntary contribution percentages at their earliest eligibility. Enrollment files are sent daily from myVRS Navigator to MissionSquare Retirement (formerly ICMA-RC). However, MissionSquare requires two to three business days to establish a new account after an employee is successfully enrolled in myVRS Navigator.

Once in myVRS, employees have access to the Retirement Planner and Benefit Estimator, myVRS Financial Wellness, their MBP and a wealth of other information to help plan for retirement.