1095 ACA EFile: XML File Validation Errors and Solution

ez1095 ACA software helps customers validate XML files before submitting the efile documents to IRS. Find step-by-step solutions to resolve common ACA eFiling errors.

Note: If you received errors after submitting ACA forms to IRS, please refer to

IRS ACA Submission Errors and Solutions

Step 1: Find the error and solution

Error	Solution
1	Form1095CAttachedCnt Error ERROR (Line 26): The 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:7.0:Form1095CAttachedCnt' element is invalid - The value '' is invalid according to its datatype 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:7.0:TotalNumberNonNegativeType' - The string '' is not a valid Integer value.
2	Middle Name error
3	Address Error
4	Foreign Address Error
5	StartMonthNumberCd Error
6	Datetime Error or DOB error
7	BusinessNameControlTxt Error
8	ALEContactPhoneNum Error or Phone Error
9	EmployeeOfferAndCoverageGrp Error: The element 'EmployeeOfferAndCoverageGrp' in namespace 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:ty22' has incomplete content. List of possible elements expected: 'AnnualOfferOfCoverageCd, MonthlyOfferCoverageGrp' in namespace 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:ty22'.
10	StateCD Error: ERROR (Line xxx): The 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:7.0:StateCD' element is invalid.
11	Phone Error and solution ERROR (Line 25 ): The 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:ty24:ContactPhoneNum' element is invalid - The value '55512345' is invalid according to its datatype 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:ty24:ContactPhoneNumberType' - The actual length is less than the MinLength value.

Step 2: Find the form and fix the error

Error Examples

Example 1:
ERROR (Form Id []; Name [Susan Williamson]; SSN []; Line 25 ): The 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:ty24:ContactPhoneNum' element is invalid - The value '55512345' is invalid according to its datatype 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:ext:aca:air:ty24:ContactPhoneNumberType' - The actual length is less than the MinLength value.

If you see the blank form ID, employee name and SSN in the error message, it is a Form 1094 error. Please open 1094C/B form and fix the error.

Example 2:
ERROR (Form Id [1]; Name [Ann Smith]; SSN [122223456]; Line 130 ): The 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:common:USZIPCd' element is invalid - The value '805' is invalid according to its datatype 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:common:USZIPCdType' - The Pattern constraint failed.

If you see the employoee name and SSN in the error description, it is a 1095 form error. Please open the 1095C/B for this employee and fix the error.

Example 3
ERROR (Line 130 ): The 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:common:USZIPCd' element is invalid - The value '805' is invalid according to its datatype 'urn:us:gov:treasury:irs:common:USZIPCdType' - The Pattern constraint failed.

If the error description starts with line number, you are using the old version. Please follow this guide:

How to read XML file data by line number with NOTEPAD application

Step 3: Generate the new XML files, validate and efile

After you fixed the error(s), you MUST generate the new XML files with ez1095 software. Please DO NOT modify the XML documents manually!!!

More Troubleshooting Information

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