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Online Transactions are Easy: MyPBA FAQs

    • Q: What is MyPBA?

      • 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.

    • Q: What can you do in MyPBA?

      • 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
      • View payment information such as address of record, payment status, and canceled checks
      • Retirees
      • Beneficiaries
      • Alternate Payees under qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs)
      • Future retirees (deferred vested)
      • An e-mail address (you can't use MyPBA without one)
      • Your date of birth
      • A valid Social Security Number
      • 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.
      • 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.
      • Access our Web site at www.pbgc.gov/wr.
      • Look for the MyPBA heading in the right-hand column
      • Visit the MyPBA Apply for an account Web page and click the Show Me How button to view the simple steps involved in creating a MyPBA account
      • 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/ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) user: call the Federal Relay Service toll-free at 1-800-877-8339 and ask to be connected to 1-800-400-7242

    • Q: Who can open an account?

      All plan participants in PBGC-trusteed plans, including:

      • Retirees
      • Beneficiaries
      • Alternate Payees under qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs)
      • Future retirees (deferred vested)

    • Q: What are the advantages of online transactions using MyPBA

      • 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.

    • Q:When can I open an account?

      • 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:
      • Visit the MyPBA Apply for an account Web page and click the Show Me How button to view the simple steps involved in creating a MyPBA account
      • 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/ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) user: call the Federal Relay Service toll-free at 1-800-877-8339 and ask to be connected to 1-800-400-7242