Thank you; I had just replied in your other thread.
If one of your W-2s is for IHSS Medicaid Waiver payments, and you have a zero in Box 1, see this help article for more information.
Normally:
If the only entry on your W-2 is in Box 12 (there's a blank or a $0 in Box 1), and you want to use the income to qualify for Earned Income Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit, you can enter the W-2 as is.
If the only entry on your W-2 is in Box 12 (there's a blank or a $0 in Box 1) and you don’t want to use the income to qualify for Earned Income Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit, you don’t need to enter the W-2 at all.
However, you have an unusual situation in that you appear to be entitled to a credit for excess Social Security withholding between your IHSS W-2 and the W-2 form your other employer, so you will want to enter the Social Security withholding for both.
We tested the situation with Box 1 being zero earlier in the season when the IHSS help article was being updated. The Box 12 code and related TurboTax steps are new this year. At that time, the steps in the article were working. In the previous version of the help article, we advised entering the Box 3 amount again in Box 1, but this no longer worked when the Box 12 code was added this year.
Try entering $1 in Box 1 of the IHSS W-2 instead of zero. Check your return to confirm that the IHSS income is excluded only one time.
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