Filing rejected over Form 8863

[DentonWineGuy]

I'm receiving an error (and a rejected filing):  "Each student SSN that has a value of form 8863, line 21 must not be the same as that in another form 8863. 

I have three students who are eligible for credits and I've checked each entry in 8863 and they are all different SSN's and allocated properly. 

Anyone seen this before or have any ideas? Any help is always greatly appreciated. 

Steve Smith

[rbynaker · Accepted solution]

Interesting, I've not seen that before.

I'm wondering if the student's SSN appears on an 8863 filed by another taxpayer.  (Any chance the kid filed on his own?)  I wouldn't expect the IRS computer to be that smart but they did manage to add a reject for folks with a 1095-A a couple years ago.  So maybe they're smart enough to reject multiple education credits for the same student.

[abctax55]

Wild guess.... make sure the order dependants are listed is the same order for the F 8863's. I hade a reject over CTC years ago where this was the issue. 

[DentonWineGuy]

It appears that a return was filed fraudulently for one of the dependents. Thanks everyone for your help!