Exclusions from e-file

These types of employee benefit filings are excluded form e-file:

Filings sent using software not approved by the DOL for e-file.

Filings with accounting periods of more than 365 or 366 days (366-day accounting periods are only acceptable for leap-year filings).

Filings partially e-filed and partially paper-filed.

Filings for which sections of the form are filed at different times rather than filed at the same time.

Filings submitted on unsupported media.

Filings including unsupported attachment types.

Unsigned filings (submitted without including the PIN and Signer ID as an electronic signature).

Filing that aren't encrypted and are submitted via modern-to-modern or transmission.

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