Revised 2007 web-based Manual for Authorized Agents available now!

This new Web-based Authorized Agents Manual offers key word search, links to blank forms, and links to other websites.

Revisions to the Manual include:

• Updated Employer Access information, including information on Web-based Wage Reporting
• Updated Authorized Agent Checklists
• Updated Employer Forms chart
• Added mandatory Web Wage Reporting effective 6/1/06 for employers that have Internet Access, $25 monthly fee, Certificate of Lack of Internet Access
• Added form for SLEP member to convert up to 120 months of Regular Plan service to SLEP Plan service
• Added form for former public safety employees to elect pre-tax deduction of health and long term care insurance premiums from benefit payment
• Corrected information regarding employee contributions to deferred compensation plans. Such contributions are included as IMRF earnings and must be reported to IMRF. Contributions to these plans do not reduce an employee's IMRF wages but do reduce an employee’s salary for tax purposes, even though the Internal Revenue Code may call them “employer contributions
• Clarified that for death of inactive member interest is credited to the member's date of death.

With the release of our new 2007 Web-based Manual for Authorized Agents, your existing paper Manual for Authorized Agents and 2005 CD version is obsolete.