More than $2.7 million in forgotten retirement benefits reclaimed by hardworking Hoosiers, more benefits waiting

INDIANA – The Indiana Public Retirement System (INPRS) has refreshed its Reclaim Your Retirement secure database with 541 new potential benefit recipients.

Since the secure database’s launch in November 2025, 444 retirees, survivors, and beneficiaries have reclaimed their retirement benefits.

More than $2.7 million in forgotten retirement benefits have been claimed by hardworking Hoosiers and their survivors and beneficiaries whose names were listed on INPRS’s Reclaim Your Retirement secure database.

As a result of combined outreach efforts:

  • Approximately $2.6 million of annual guaranteed lifetime income has been claimed by 398 members upon initiating retirement.
  • $146,384.07 has been delivered to 46 members, survivors, and beneficiaries for defined benefit and defined contribution benefits previously paid out.

As of March 2026, the refreshed Reclaim Your Retirement database lists:

  • 3,793 Public Employees’ Retirement Fund and Teachers’ Retirement Fund members are eligible to request their earned retirement benefits, and 
  • 2,247 retirees, survivors, and beneficiaries who have funds previously issued to them but have not yet been deposited.

More than 20,000 people have accessed the Reclaim Your Retirement secure database since its launch in November 2025.

With this refreshed database, INPRS is amplifying its outreach efforts to locate more eligible retirees, survivors, and beneficiaries with retirement benefits pending.

Median monthly benefit payments by fund range from $557.50 to $793.50. These individuals may also have a defined contribution account, with balances averaging $14,451 to $33,342.

The public can access the Reclaim Your Retirement secure database, available at in.gov/inprs/reclaimyourretirement. Visitors can search for themselves, friends, family members, and former colleagues. To initiate the search, visitors must enter a first name, last name, and date of birth, including the four-digit year.

If there is a match in the database, on-screen instructions will guide the named individual, their survivor, or beneficiary on what to do next.

The Reclaim Your Retirement secure database is hosted outside of INPRS member accounts. It’s free and easy to use.