In March 2019, the Social Security Administration (SSA) resumed
issuance of Educational Correspondence (EDCOR)/Employer Correction
Requests (known as "no-match" letters). For decades, SSA
sent out no-match letters regularly, but it stopped in 2012.
According to statistics provided by the SSA, so far in 2019,
577,349 letters have been mailed. The SSA plans to mail the
remaining letters for tax year 2018 this fall, as revealed in its
response to an inquiry by Representative Jim Costa.
What are no-match letters?
No-match letters are mailed to employers in the form of
correspondence requesting corrected information to reconcile
employer wage reports and credit employees' earnings to their
social security records. Such letters state that there is a
mismatch between certain employees' information on Forms W-2
and the SSA's database. The letters provide employers with 60
days from the day of receipt to submit necessary corrections on the
Form W-2C. The letters do not
