5 Ways Employers Can Protect Member Accounts

Numbers are a part of our lives. Social Security numbers, account numbers, phone numbers, birth dates and bank balances are tempting targets for criminals, both online and off. Your employees’ TCDRS accounts are no different.

By Kelly Lindner

Here are five ways you can help protect your employees’ TCDRS accounts and all the data that goes along with them.

1. Double check employer portal access
   Make sure only appropriate staff have access to the TCDRS employer portal. Also, establish a process to instantly remove access when that plan administrator leaves your employ.

2. If you print it, shred it
   When possible, avoid printing reports or other documents that contain sensitive information. But if you must, shred them after use.

3. Verify before you click
   If you receive a suspicious email or letter that looks like it’s from TCDRS, always use our official contact information from TCDRS.org, and call a trusted TCDRS contact to check.

4. Keep passwords strong
   Encourage employees to use different passwords for each of their online accounts. Passphrases can also help create easier-to-remember passwords. And discourage employees from writing passwords down or saving them to a web browser.

5. Ask employees to claim their accounts
   Registering for online account access at TCDRS.org let’s your employees check their account balances, update beneficiaries and other account maintenance. Claiming their account also means no one else can.

Leah Golden contributed to this article. 

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