How do I enter special characters such as asterisk into the Plan Name, Sponsor Name, Administrator Name and/or DFE Name fields?
Only certain special characters are allowed to be entered under EFAST2. For example, the Plan Name and the Plan Transfer Name fields allow only unaccented letters, numbers, hashes, hyphens, slashes, commas, periods, parentheses, ampersands, apostrophes and single spaces. Leading spaces, trailing spaces, adjacent spaces and other characters are currently invalid for these fields. Additionally, the Sponsor/DFE Name (including the Sponsors DBA Name, Sponsors Care/Of Name and Last Reported Sponsor Name), the Administrator Name (including the Administrators Care/Of Name), the Insurance Carrier Name, and Contributing Employer Name fields contain similar restrictions on valid characters. The only allowable characters for these fields are letters, numbers, commas, periods, hyphens, slashes, ampersands, apostrophes, percents, or single spaces. All other characters are currently invalid for these fields. For Plan Year 2011 returns/reports, we are expanding the list of allowable special character
