You can use the first day of the month he received his very first payment.
The IRS should also accept the first day of the month he retired as a perfectly "good faith" estimate.
This date tells the software how many "expected payments" he has left... which then determines how much of his pension is tax-free (because he made after-tax contributions to the plan years ago).
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