Field 01-J - Agreement Date (also known as, "870 Agreement Date" )-DOC Code 51 only

The Agreement Date is found in Item J (Section 01), Page 1, Form 3413. It is located on Line 23 of the Form 3552 (it is displayed as the "870 Agreement Date" ).

This field is invalid with Doc Code 52.

This date is entered from Form 3552 and Form 3413 (Doc Code 51 only) to provide the master file with the correct interest computation date.

This date must be in YYYYMMDD format. The month (fifth and sixth digits) must be 01-12 and the day (seventh and eighth digits) must be 01-31.

The date may not be later than the current processing date or earlier than the following dates:

1970-01-01 (i.e., January 1, 1970) for IMF and BMF on initial input or 1962-01-01 (i.e., January 1, 1962) for BMF and 1962-12-01 (i.e., December 1, 1962) for IMF on error correction run.

1976-01-01 (i.e., January 1, 1976) for IRAF on both initial input and error correction run.

If an invalid 870 date is present on Form 3552 and a valid date is not available from the attachments, reject the document, using Action Code 3. Attach Form 4227, notating "invalid 870 date" . Route to Accounting for correction.