NO. If you received the money in 2023, you enter it when you prepare your 2023 tax return in 2024. You do not use an award letter to prepare a tax return. You wait until you have the SSA1099 that will be sent to you in January. Then you use it on your 2023 tax return.
Understand that when the Social Security Administration issues that SSA1099 it is sending a copy to the IRS. It will show that the money was paid to you in 2023. You prepare your tax return so that your information matches the information on the SSA1099. As explained to you already, you will be able to indicate on your 2023 return that part of the amount paid to you in 2023 was for tax year 2022.
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