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Online Transactions Are Easy With MyPBA
- What is MyPBA?
- What can you do in MyPBA?
- Who can open an account?
- What do I need to sign up
- What are the advantages of online transactions using MyPBA?
- When can I open an account?
- How do I set up an account?
A: MyPBA is a secure online service offered to you by PBGC that allows you to handle, through the Web, a number of common transactions with PBGC. This service is fast, free, and available to you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It does not matter whether you click "MyPBA Login" on our home page or log in from the Workers & Retirees page to get to it.
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- View and print your IRS Form 1099-R (which reports your pension payments from PBGC) for your income tax filing
- Request a benefit payment estimate be mailed to you
- Apply for pension benefits
- Designate or change beneficiary information
- Change your address, telephone number, or e-mail address
- Designate or edit your federal tax withholdings
- Apply for electronic direct deposit (EDD) or edit your existing EDD information
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A: All plan participants in PBGC-trusteed plans, including:
- Retirees
- Beneficiaries
- Alternate Payees under qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs)
- Future retirees (deferred vested)
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- An e-mail address (you can't use MyPBA without one)
- Your date of birth
- A valid Social Security Number
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Q: What are the advantages of online transactions using MyPBA?
A:
- Transactions are processed faster using PBGCs online service. There is no waiting for forms in the mail!
- Online transactions are safe, confidential,and completely secure.
- MyPBA provides confirmation of the date and time that PBGC received your information.
- MyPBA helps PBGC provide more accurate and timely response.
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Q: When can I open an account?
A:
- You can create your personal MyPBA account as soon as we have acquired your plan's information and finished loading it into our database.
- If you try to open an account too soon, you will get a message that there's no match to the plan name or case number yet.
- Please wait a few days and try again. It may take PBGC several months to set up the database for your plan.
Q: How do I set up an account?
It's easy:
A:
- Access our Web site at www.pbgc.gov/workers-retirees.
- Look for the MyPBA heading in the right-hand column
- Click on Apply for an account to create your MyPBA account and follow the easy steps (next page)..
- If you have any problems opening an account, our Customer Contact Center will contact you within 24 hours or you can call them directly at 1-800-400-7242
- TTY/TDD user: call the Federal Relay Service toll-free at 1-800-877-8339 and ask to be connected to 1-800-400-7242
October 2009
