Q.    How do I suppress the printing of participant's social security numbers in the various Fast-Flex reports to protect their privacy?

A.  The social security number (SSN) is an essential part of Fast-Flex Plus because you can search for participants by SSN.  Sometimes the SSN is required to distinguish plan participants with the same name.

But there is a valid concern about protecting privacy.  Some customers have either explicitly requested that the SSN print on the statements or they have not expressed a concern when it is shown on reports.  It's hard to make everyone happy.  Here's what we recommend:

Fast-Flex Plus always displays its reports as a word processor document that you can edit.  So you can either manually search for the SSN and then edit it out, or if you are using MS Word, write a macro or use "Replace All"  to change SSNs to "blanks" like ###-##-####.  Use MS Word's wildcard search-and-replace as shown below: