Use this section to provide descriptions of your plans to make it easier for employees to tell the difference between plans when they are enrolling online. You can also indicate if certain plans are "required" or "voluntary." If a plan is marked as "required" the employee must enroll in that plan when they enter their version of Online Enrollment System. From the homepage of the Online Enrollment System select "Go" in the "Setup/Modify" section.

The name of your plan will appear based on our records. This is the name that will appear for employees in the Online Enrollment System. (Employees will not see PPGs*) You can make the process even smoother for them by adding some descriptive text which they will see when they enroll online. You can also indicate whether a plan is "voluntary" or "required." If a plan is "required" employees will be prompted to enroll in this plan in order to complete the enrollment process whereas enrollment in a "voluntary" plan will be completely at the discretion of the employee. Clicking "Submit" will capture these changes. You can always come back to this function to make modifications.

Each TIAA-CREF participating institution is assigned at least one four-digit Premium Payment Group (PPG) number. Each PPG identifies either an entire institution or an institutional subgroup, and is used to call up that plan's contribution remittance accounting, recordkeeping, and plan rules. For example, faculty-level employees at an institution may have a different PPG than staff employees, or those employees being paid monthly may have a different PPG than those being paid biweekly.