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. To ensure VRS has current contact information for your members, please strongly encourage employees to establish their myVRS account as soon as possible and add their contact information, including mobile number and personal email address. If the member doesn’t register the account with 90 days, VRS locks the account for the member’s security, requiring the member to call to gain access.

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.

Timely reporting 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. 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 Member Benefit Profile and a wealth of other information to help plan for retirement. It’s also important for member to name beneficiaries for their VRS benefits and to keep their phone, personal email address and home mailing address information current.