SMS Relay not an option

I have updated my iPhone 5 to 8.1. When I go into Messages the Text Message Forwarding option is not even there. iMessage is on with my iCloud email address selected. . Any suggestions on how to have this show up?

I was searching for a while trying to figure this out myself. I did see that iOS 8.1 is required for SMS Relay on a site, but I am not sure if that's 100% accurate.

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