topic Entering Federal ID exact as it on 1099-r. It's telling me it invalid. What going on? in Retirement tax questions

Entering Federal ID exact as it on 1099-r. It's telling me it invalid. What going on?

danger37 — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:16:04 GMT

FED ID is 34-072761. Program telling me it invalid

Bsch4477 — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:27:07 GMT

That number should have 9 digits.

SteamTrain — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:03:11 GMT

DFAS has supposedly sent out new 1099-R forms correcting that problem for the erroneous tax forms they sent out initially

The correct EIN is

34-0727612