Social Security Administration Discontinues No-Match Letters

In 2018, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that, for the first time since 2007, it would resume issuing no-match letters, also called EDCOR or Educational Correspondence letters. No-match letters notify employers that an employee's name and Social Security number (SSN) as reported on W-2 records do not match SSA's record of the employee and their SSN. The purpose of a no-match letter is to advise employers that corrections are needed for the SSA to properly post employees' earnings to the correct Social Security record. After the practice was resumed in 2019, the SSA issued approximately 803,000 no-match letters to employers. In 2020, the SSA issued approximately 791,000 no-match letters to employers.