Originally Posted by Fredg
Hi,
Please talk with your new employer's Plan Administrator. It might be your Human Resources person, or another.
They will be able to possibly straighten this out for you. Since the check was made out to how you said, possibly it will not count as a "direct payment" to you. Please ask them.
Any "roll-over" is usually handled by the new employer, not you directly. Or, if into an IRA, handled by the institution getting the roll-over. Sounds like your old company Plan Administrator people didn't know what they were doing!
Best of luck.