Changing Your Personal Information with IMRF

You should notify IMRF immediately if you have a name change or other change of information that affects your IMRF records.

While some changes are submitted online through your secure Member Access account, other changes must be made in writing with your signature and the last four digists of your Social Security number.

Click on the links below to read about your options regarding the following:

• Name change
• Address change
• Bank information for Direct Deposit
• Your beneficiary information

If you have a name change:

Submit name changes through your secure Member Access account.

Please note: IMRF will not accept name changes over the telephone or by email.

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If you move or change your mailing address:

Submit address changes through your secure Member Access account.

Please note: IMRF will not accept address changes over the telephone or by email.

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If your bank information for Direct Deposit changes:

If you are simply changing account numbers (but staying with the same financial institution), you can call 1-800-275-4673 and provide that change over the telephone.

However, if you are moving your account to a different financial institution, you need to submit a new Form 1199 is required.

Please mail your new Form 1199 to:

IMRF
2211 York Road
Suite 500
Oak Brook, IL 60523-2337

Although your payments are directly deposited, IMRF will continue to mail income tax statements and other correspondence to your home address.

If any piece of mail is returned to IMRF because you have not changed your address with us, we will stop your Direct Deposit. (This often occurs when a post office forwarding order expires. A member submits a forwarding order to the post office and has his/her IMRF mail forwarded to the new address. However, when the forwarding order expires and the member's IMRF mail will be retured to IMRF if he/she did not submit a change of address to IMRF.)

Please note: IMRF will not accept any bank information changes over the telephone or by email.

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If you wish to change your beneficiary:

If you wish to change your beneficiary for your $3,000 death benefit, you must submit a new Form 6.11A to IMRF.

Please note that although we can accept the signature of a representative for name and address changes, we can accept only the member’s signature for a beneficiary change. We cannot accept the signature of anyone other than the member for beneficiary changes—this includes Power of Attorneys, conservators, trustees, or guardians.

Please note: IMRF will not accept any beneficiary changes over the telephone or by email.