Online Pension Transactions (MyPBA)
How to Get Started with 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.
Who can open an account?
All plan participants in PBGC-trusteed plans, including retirees, beneficiaries, Alternate Payees under Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs), and future retirees (deferred vested).
What do I need to sign up?
- An e-mail address (you can't use MyPBA without one)
- Your date of birth
- A valid Social Security Number
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.
How do I get started?
- Already have an account? Then login to MyPBA.
- New to MyPBA? Apply for an account.
- If you have any problems opening an account, you can email our Customer Contact Center at mypension@pbgc.gov or call us at 1-800-400-7242.
How do I set up an account? It's easy:
- Access our Web site at www.pbgc.gov/mypba
- Click on "Apply for an account" to create your MyPBA account and follow the easy steps.
- You can view the step-by-step instructions for creating a new MyPBA account or print them out.
- 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.
