Waiting on resolution to this issue.

We have 25 days to go. 

I just built a free little utility that bypasses the QuickBooks restriction and lets you set the SSN to nine zeros.

See https://bigredconsulting.com/products/employee-fixer/

Once the employee is updated then the W-2's print "Applied for" as expected and required.

So is the QB team actually working on a fix/resolution for this? 

I doubt it.

I spoke to a support tech with Quickbooks and we have to manually submit the forms through the mail. 

How? You can't print them from QuickBooks with Applied for in the SSN box (unless you use our tool to work around QuickBooks, that is).

Do they expect you to find a typewriter or something to fill out paper triplicate forms?

Did they also tell you how to get out of the penalty for filing your forms using an incorrect filing method. (Assuming you have 10+ W-2s).

It's probably a better idea to use our little utility so you can e-file.

Thank you for this!!!

Please note that I found that the employee needs to be active for the import to work. 

Here is how you do it on QuickBooks Desktop

Go the the Employees Tab, then go down to Payroll Setup.

Fine the employee and go to the Select drop down menu under Action and click Edit.

You can then enter all zeros for the SSN.

We were able to do this with some old employees, that did receive normal paychecks but had ITINS at the beginning of this year. 

Hope this helps. 

@Carrie G 93535 

RE: Go the the Employees Tab, then go down to Payroll Setup.

Find the employee and go to the Select drop down menu under Action and click Edit.

You can then enter all zeros for the SSN.

OMG, this is hilarious! Makes the utterly lame change by Intuit to disallow "invalid" SSN's even lamer, as they didn't even bother to change payroll setup! Just incredible. 

I spoke with someone from SSA today regarding this problem. Employees without social security numbers need to be mailed in BUT she also informed me that employees that do not have a social security or “working number” with not get credit of the social security tax being paid. If they only have ITINs they should be getting a 1099 until they get a social security card. 

RE: It is illegal to hire someone without the proper identification.

Yes, though one version of "proper identification" for an immigrant to the US is paperwork that entitles them to work, even though they have not yet received an SSN.

@BigRedConsulting Between this and the 'workaround' for creating an employee without a birthdate, I am beginning to wonder if anybody at Intuit understands the work of the prior programmers. This is becoming quite the trend.

Intuit is mainly focused on creating profit centers and rollouts of new pricing strategies.  

Resolving self-inflicted programming errors and customer service is not a priority. It almost feels like they are controlled by private equity.

Big Red,

  I lost that link to the output file you sent me before. Can you send it please?

                     Tim

@TV Bent 

Do you mean this?

A free little utility that bypasses the QuickBooks restriction and lets you set the SSN to nine zeros:

https://bigredconsulting.com/products/employee-fixer/

Once the employee is updated then the W-2's print "Applied for" as expected and required.

It's taking all but 2 employees out of 7? Tried creating again but didn't work??

Please send a request describing what you're seeing in as much detail as you can:  BRC Support Request  

Yes!  This worked for me after spending days trying to figure out a work around. Uninstalled, reinstalled etc... I didn't place a call to Intuit after reading how unhelpful they've been when others have called. Thank you for posting this. I hope it helps others. My W-2's are printed!

Go to Employee - Payroll Setup from there you can edit and employee and add all zero's - if you are using the "accountant's copy"

I'm not

I have the accountants copy, and am not able to do this?