Yes, it is complicated.
The program is trying to determine, if the benefits were paid in the year they were meant to be paid, what would have been the effect on your tax liability.
So the program is asking, what did you get, and what SHOULD you have gotten.
Then it asks about taxable Social Security for the year in question since if there was taxable Social Security for that prior year, the additional amount (what you should have gotten) would have been taxed too.
You did not get payments that year, so there could not have been any taxable.
**Say "Thanks" by clicking the thumb icon in a post
**Mark the post that answers your question by clicking on "Mark as Best Answer"
