Manual entry adjustments entered in the RE Portal do not update your internal software. You should consider making sure that RE Portal corrections and adjustments are also reflected in your internal software.
Why does this matter? This may help with questions involving financial discrepancies and employee questions about their own records.
For example, it’s March 1 and you discover an employee met eligibility on Jan. 1. You make contract changes, collect the TRS member contributions from the employee, and report the contribution for prior months via RP25.
If these adjustments are entered manually into the RE Portal and you do not update your own internal records, it may not reflect the correct date the employee entered the eligible position. You may not be able to easily explain the additional contributions paid for the prior months.
One step that may assist with making sure your records are in sync with the RE Portal is to update your own internal records first. This may increase efficiency by providing the text file uploads for the corrections. You may need to reach out to your software provider if you need assistance with generating text files for the corrections.