Electronic filing and mismatch of ID # on 1099-R

[Bird]

A participant called and said their electronic filing was rejected because the employer ID did not match to anything in the IRS' records.

This sounds familiar...I think I had one of these last year...don't quite remember the outcome.

Any experience with this? Could it be related to the IRS' program to de-activate numbers that aren't used regularly? (But that shouldn't be the case with this plan, which has had fairly consistent activity.)

[maverick]

This happened to me a couple years ago, and yes, it was related to the IRS' deactivating a trust ID number. Rather than make the participant wait for however long it took to get the TIN "un-deactivated" I issued a corrected 1099R using the employer's EIN.

[Bird]

I'm not sure I'm willing to do that, but thanks for the feedback.