The CA payment that the IRS is excluding from federal income is called a Middle Class Tax Relief payment. It was reported on a form 1099-MISC and labeled "MCTR." The payment was to low income residents of CA for tax year 2020 (paid in 2022). You must have been a resident of CA for 6 months or more in tax year 2020 with income below certain levels according to the filing status in 2020.
Your tax refund on the other hand from CA is reported on a 1099-G and falls in the category that it may be taxable if you itemized in the tax year that the refund was for. Enter the amount as a "State Tax Refund" in the "Other Common Income" dropdown menu. Since you itemized in 2021 you will be asked questions from your 2021 tax return to determine if any of the refund is taxable on your federal return.
All of this is in regards to federal taxation. Neither of the payments is taxable on the CA return. In fact if you do not have any other CA source income and you are nonresident for CA in 2022 you do not need to file a 2022 CA tax return.
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