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SSA database mangles on-line W2 forms Victor Roberts 01-10-2007
Posted by Victor Roberts on January 10, 2007, 10:16 pm
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 I completed my single W-2 and corresponding W-3 today at
www.ssa.gov. When I logged in my company name and address
were presented correctly. However, when I started the
process of completing the on-line Form W-2 I noticed that
both parts of my city name had been entered incorrectly on
the W-2. In the first word of the city name two letters had
been replaced by one and in the second word of the city name
an L had been changed to an I.

It was easy to correct these errors before proceeding, but I
am always concerned when a computer database does not
correctly transfer data from one form to another. It makes
me wonder what other data may not transfer correctly.

I called SSA customer service. They had not heard about
this problem but the agent did say she would pass the
information on to their technical staff.

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Posted by Jonathan Kamens on January 11, 2007, 1:15 am
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 The SSA does not exactly have a stellar record of preventing
their computer systems from mangling data. See
<http://www.mit.edu/~jik/ssa-zip.html> for my (unsuccessful)
efforts to try to get them to admit that their computers
replace valid mailing addresses with invalid ones when
mailing out social security cards. They wouldn't even admit
that there's a problem, let alone fix it.

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Posted by Victor Roberts on January 12, 2007, 3:06 am
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jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us (Jonathan Kamens) wrote:

> The SSA does not exactly have a stellar record of preventing
> their computer systems from mangling data. See
> <http://www.mit.edu/~jik/ssa-zip.html> for my (unsuccessful)
> efforts to try to get them to admit that their computers
> replace valid mailing addresses with invalid ones when
> mailing out social security cards. They wouldn't even admit
> that there's a problem, let alone fix it.

Interesting.

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Vic Roberts
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Posted by Harlan Lunsford on January 11, 2007, 1:16 am
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Victor Roberts wrote:

> I completed my single W-2 and corresponding W-3 today at
> www.ssa.gov. When I logged in my company name and address
> were presented correctly. However, when I started the
> process of completing the on-line Form W-2 I noticed that
> both parts of my city name had been entered incorrectly on
> the W-2. In the first word of the city name two letters had
> been replaced by one and in the second word of the city name
> an L had been changed to an I.
>
> It was easy to correct these errors before proceeding, but I
> am always concerned when a computer database does not
> correctly transfer data from one form to another. It makes
> me wonder what other data may not transfer correctly.
>
> I called SSA customer service. They had not heard about
> this problem but the agent did say she would pass the
> information on to their technical staff.

And I had registered back in December, thinking to try this
SSA free service again after several years. On Dec 29th I
did file two W2 forms for a client successfully. Several
days ago I signed on again to file some for another client
and was informed that my password didn't match. Of course I
was stubborn and tried two more times, so am locked out of
the system.

I doubt that I will ever try again.

ChEAr$,
Harlan

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Posted by Benjamin Yazersky CPA on January 13, 2007, 2:31 am
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> Victor Roberts wrote:

>> I completed my single W-2 and corresponding W-3 today at
>> www.ssa.gov. When I logged in my company name and address
>> were presented correctly. However, when I started the
>> process of completing the on-line Form W-2 I noticed that
>> both parts of my city name had been entered incorrectly on
>> the W-2. In the first word of the city name two letters had
>> been replaced by one and in the second word of the city name
>> an L had been changed to an I.
>>
>> It was easy to correct these errors before proceeding, but I
>> am always concerned when a computer database does not
>> correctly transfer data from one form to another. It makes
>> me wonder what other data may not transfer correctly.
>>
>> I called SSA customer service. They had not heard about
>> this problem but the agent did say she would pass the
>> information on to their technical staff.

> And I had registered back in December, thinking to try this
> SSA free service again after several years. On Dec 29th I
> did file two W2 forms for a client successfully. Several
> days ago I signed on again to file some for another client
> and was informed that my password didn't match. Of course I
> was stubborn and tried two more times, so am locked out of
> the system.
>
> I doubt that I will ever try again.

that does a lot to encourage us CPA professionals to efile
this things for small bus clients

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