We are meeting your needs on the web 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Your information source
Publications, videos and more are at your fingertips.
Read or print out brochures, newsletters and booklets for your reference under the publications section of the Member Services area. We have videos on retirement, disability, and death and survivor benefits so you can view the information you need at your convenience. You’ll also find driving directions, TRS contact information and forms. A site search engine will also help you locate what you need quickly.
TRS also has areas with current information about investments, the TRS Board of Trustees, news releases, vendor information, TRS careers, the strategic plan and employer services
Your MyTRSIL member account online
MyTRSIL, trsil.org/myTRSIL, is your online record available to you 24/7. All members must register with multifactor authentication (MFA) to create a MyTRSIL member account. MFA provides extra layers of security to protect you in case someone tries to access your account.
For your protection, an email is automatically sent to you if any changes are made to your online account.
What you can do in MyTRSIL
All members
- View and update your mailing and email addresses and phone numbers.
- Upload documents to TRS.
- View beneficiaries for death benefits and print a new form to change beneficiaries.
Active and inactive members
- View your service credit and earnings.
- View your annual TRS Benefits Report.
- Create personalized pension benefit estimates.
- Complete the personal retirement interview at retirement.
Retired members or those receiving disability benefits
- Request an income verification/insurance premium verification letter.
- View and print your monthly/annual pension earnings statement.
- Print a form to add/change direct deposit.
The following sections explain the features available to you after you log in.
Personalized benefit estimate
The calculator will take information from your TRS record and use it to help you estimate your retirement income. Please have your retirement date, current salary, projected salary, and eligible sick leave days ready so you can complete the estimate.
Web estimates are in exactly the same format as estimates received from TRS Counseling Services. If you have questions about your web estimate, we can view your estimate to help you.
Uploading documents to TRS
Birth certificates and all other TRS forms can be completed and then uploaded directly to the Springfield office. It’s easy do; no stamps or mailing time. Uploading is more secure than emailing or sending a document by U.S. mail. This process decreases the paper mail that TRS receives daily and must scan by hand into the computer system.
How to upload
- Login to your MyTRSIL member account.
- Locate “Member Services” from the choices on the left navigation bar.
- Under “Member Services,” select “Document Upload.”
- Select the specific form name or “Other” and complete your upload.
TRS Benefits Report
The TRS Benefit Report is available only through your online TRS member account. We annually prepare a TRS Benefits Report for each active member. This report will be available in late November/early December and you will be notified via email when it is ready for viewing. The statement covers the previous fiscal year, July 1 through June 30.
The statement provides information about service credit, contributions, and beneficiaries. It also lists your earnings history and outlines pending and most types of terminated service credit.
When you receive your statement, review it carefully and contact us immediately if you suspect that any information has been omitted or incorrectly stated. Additionally, you may want to update your beneficiary designation by filing a new Beneficiary Designation form. It is available in your MyTRSIL member account or call us at 877-927-5877 (877-9-ASK-TRS).
Correcting Benefits Report errors
Active members should report their name change or change of address to their employer.
If you have a change to your birth date or beneficiaries, please call us at 877-927-5877 (877-9-ASK-TRS).
Your employer provides TRS with the service credit and earnings information that appears on your statement. Please discuss any errors with your employer before contacting us.
Employers must send us corrections for reporting errors that occurred in the last four years. If additional contributions are due, your employer must pay the amount due; however, your employer may require reimbursement from you. Similarly, if contributions have been overpaid, we will issue a refund to your employer who is responsible for providing refunded amounts to you.
Address and phone updates
The contact information we have on file for you will be shown on the first screen when you log in to MyTRSIL. Review your information and make updates to your address and phone numbers if necessary.
Email addition or updates
The primary way we contact members about news, events and benefit information is through email because it's an efficient, environmentally friendly and cost-saving measure.
It is preferable that your email on file with TRS is your personal email and not a work email used for school district employment so that you never lose access to receiving information from your pension system.
Your email on file will be shown on the first screen when you log in under Email Information. If your email is missing or it is your work school district email, please update it with your personal email address.
Your email address will always remain confidential. Additionally, we will never send confidential information online.
Personalized Retirement Interview
Your online Personalized Retirement Interview (PRI) will help you make choices while providing us with the information we need to personalize your retirement application forms and ready them for your signature. Please use this online service only when you are within six months of retirement and know when your last day of work will be or your last paid day. Plan on the process taking 30 minutes.