Our payments portal uses a validation tool provided by the IRS to validate TINs. If special characters are included in a payee's legal name, the payments portal strips these characters and leaves only the ones permitted by the IRS. Once a TIN has been validated, the payee becomes payable.
If the payee's name does not match the name associated with the TIN at the IRS, then TIN validation fails and the payee becomes unpayable.