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Get your taxes done using TurboTax

If you paid the premiums with after tax funds the benefit payment is not taxable.  If you paid the premiums pre-tax or your employer paid the premiums the the benefit payment would be taxable.  

 

As for the 1099-MISC, you have to report that on your tax whether it is taxable or not.  If it is non-taxable, you can also make an offsetting entry to zero it out.  To do so in TurboTax Online:

 

  • Click on Search and type in "Form 1099-MISC"
  • Click on "Jump to form 1099-misc"
  • Answer Yes to "Did you get a 1099-MISC?"
  • Enter the information on your 1099-MISC.  The amount you received should be in Box 3.
  • Give a description - For example "Critical Care Insurance Payment"
  • Indicate "None of  these apply" on the "Do one of these uncommon situations apply?"
  • Indicate "No, it didn't involve work like [your] main job
  • Mark "[You] got it in 2024" only 
  • Mark "No, it didn't involve an intent to earn money"

Next you will enter an offsetting amount.  In the Income section:

 

  • Scroll down to "Less Common Income Home sale, cancelled debt....etc."
  • Scroll  to the bottom and select "Miscellaneous Income, 1099-A, 1099-C"
  • Scroll to the bottom and select "Other reportable income"
  • Answer Yes
  • Enter the same amount that is on your 1099-MISC as a negative amount. 

You will now have two offsetting entries on Schedule 1, line 8z, that net to zero.

 

 

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