Please be advised that STARS member and employer portal will be down for regularly scheduled maintenance from Friday, Sept. 4, 8 p.m. MST until Saturday, Sept. 5, 12:00 pm. MST.
PSPRS-managed plan members, retirees and beneficiaries
The STARS system improves all account functions, including allowing users to view benefit and account information, update contact and personal details and communicate securely with PSPRS.
Open STARS link below, click Register, verify your identity and complete the two-step authentication process to gain access. For assistance, review this first-time account registration guide or email [email protected].
Users are encouraged to review, and, if necessary, update their contact information, mailing address and beneficiaries. Active, inactive and retired members can seek help with performing functions by using the Secure Message feature in STARS.
IMPORTANT STARS UPDATES (August)
- PSPRS updated its member/retiree STARS how-to video resources section (below) in partnership with Public Safety Financial Galloway. PSPRS has published sixteen videos covering everything from registering your STARS account and using the pension, DROP and service purchase estimators to updating banking information, making tax elections, enrolling in health and dental coverage – and even submitting cancer insurance claims.
- Members currently ineligible for retirement can use STARS to submit retirement applications for future dates of retirement eligibility.
- Medicare eligible retirees who use ASRS for health and dental insurance can add dependents through STARS member self-service and make health/dental enrollment and elections. Retirees who receive health and/or dental insurance through ADOA or former employers will still need to follow ADOA/former employer guidance for enrollment and elections.
Access your Defined Benefit account
Access your Defined Contribution account
TABLE OF CONTENTS
STARS user videos by Public Safety Financial Galloway
STARS user videos
PSPRS has partnered with Public Safety Financial/Galloway to provide free benefit selection and retirement planning consultations to plan members.
PSPRS does not endorse any firms for asset management services to plan members.
FAQs
Active Members
To access current balances and service, click the Account Information tab from the left‑hand menu on the STARS home page and click ACTIVE under status to see all account details and contributions.
To run pension benefit estimates, please click the Pension Estimates tab on the left‑hand menu on the STARS home page. Click New Estimate on the right-hand side of the page and proceed through the disclaimer. Members can choose to generate retirement reports for specific dates and ages, and their earliest and normal retirement dates, and include a future service purchase, though additional, unneeded fields should be left blank. Members will select Normal from the benefit estimate options. The benefit estimator provides downloadable reports with high-three (or five) year salary averages, dates and amounts of the next benefit multiplier and the maximum benefit.
To run DROP benefit estimates, click the Pension Estimates tab on the left‑hand menu on the STARS home page. Click New Estimate on the right-hand side of the page and proceed through the disclaimer. Members can generate retirement reports for specific dates and ages, and their earliest and normal retirement dates, and must include a DROP or Reverse DROP date. Members will select DROP from the benefit estimate options. The benefit estimator provides downloadable reports with high-three (or five) year salary averages, dates and amounts of the next benefit multiplier and the maximum benefit, as well as a projected DROP balance upon retirement.
Retired Members
To access 1099-R forms, please select the Documents tab on the left‑hand menu on the STARS home page. The Documents tab will house all available 1099-R forms for convenience.
To access Income Verification Letters, which are often used for major personal financial transactions like home purchases, select the My Payments tab on the left‑hand menu on the STARS home page and click the Application ID. Find and click the Income Verification Letter option.
To update tax elections, retirees and beneficiaries will click the My Payments tab on the left‑hand menu on the STARS home page. From there, click Application ID and select Add Federal or Add State to make changes.