TIAA-CREF Plan Administrators

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There are several ways for administrators to enroll employees. You can enroll them (if your institution has group plans) or you can enable your employees to enroll online themselves. If your plan allows, your employees may be submitting paper applications. Once an employee is enrolled and their first premium payment is received, we send them a welcome package that includes general information about the TIAA-CREF retirement system and specific information related to them individually. Two weeks after we receive the initial premium, we send a legal package containing the annuities and any riders or endorsements that may apply. We mail the legal package two weeks after the premium is applied, in order to be certain that the participant has time to review the welcome package.


•	Accessing employee data


•	Remitting premium data


•	Sending premium payments


•	Employee terminations and vesting


•	Enrolling employees
	• Getting started • Using the system • Upload a file • Enroll employees individually • Enable employees individually • Setup/modify plan descriptions • Ongoing maintenance • Paper enrollment

•	Salary reduction agreement


•	Contribution limits