Thank you for the response. I need to clarify two things. 1) I'm a pastor in the Methodist Church. Each church is part of a conference of connected churches. So my church technically pays my salary but I'm employed by the conference. The conference has a written policy about offering adoption assistance, which is what I received. The conference issued the 1099 misc and there is no obvious way to note that it was for adoption assistance. 2) I filled out form 8839 in 2018 because of when I paid for the adoption but received the deductible assistance in 2019. I can't find a way to update the form with new info about the assistance nor is there a way to fill out a new 8839 about the same adoption.
All that is too say, I'm confident the assistance qualifies for the deduction but can't figure out if there is a way to claim it within the program.
