As you know, we adopted our second son last year (which finalized in Dec – woohoo!).
A couple weeks ago, we received Zeb’s birth certificate (which needs to be processed after an adoption), and applied for his SSN.
Earlier this week his brand spankin’ new SSN card arrived – so I got down to finishing our tax return for 2015. Problem:
Rule Number: R0000-504-02
Rule Number Description: The SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER (SSN or ITIN) and LAST NAME for Dependent 2 do not match the IRS e-File database. You will need to REVIEW AND MAKE CHANGES to the Dependent 2’s information before resubmitting your return.
Whahuh?
So I got on the phone to the IRS after some scary FAQ pages, it turns out that the IRS only gets data updates from the SSA every few weeks.
The very helpful lady who answered my call and helped me out told me to try again in a couple weeks, and it should go through with no issues.
At least there’s a reason for it to have rejected.