Empower Balance API

aid: great-west-lifeco:empower-balance-api
name: Empower Balance API
description: Listed in the public API catalog of the Empower developer portal, operated by Great-West
  Lifeco's U.S. retirement subsidiary Empower. Marked "production" and categorized "financial", it returns
  participant-level balance data for employer-sponsored retirement plans, including total balances, investments,
  loans and vesting balances, in JSON, for integration into Empower client and partner solutions. The
  catalog page is public and states the API was developed following OpenAPI Specification standards, but
  the reference documentation itself is gated ("To see the reference documentation, please login") and
  access is granted only through the portal "Get Access" request flow, after which an API key and OAuth
  client credentials are delivered by secure email. No machine-readable specification, base URL, or endpoint
  list is published anonymously. The baseURL below is the group's probe-observed U.S. API gateway host
  (api.empower.com, AWS API Gateway, which answers {"message":"Forbidden"} to every anonymous request);
  the documented base URL is delivered privately with the credential package, and Empower's own product
  page lists this API as "DC participant balances" among eight named API products.
humanURL: https://developer.empower.com/api-catalog/balance-api
baseURL: https://api.empower.com
tags:
- Retirement
- Balances
- Financial
- Read Only
- Login Gated
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.empower.com/api-catalog/balance-api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.empower.com/docs/get-started
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/great-west-lifeco-sandbox.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/great-west-lifeco-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/great-west-lifeco-problem-types.yml