BillM223
Employee Tax Expert

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To reinforce GeoffreyG's excellent answer, let me say that when the PFL screen appears (as Alshan shows), TurboTax prefills in the box with the total of the W-2 Wages amount.

 

HOWEVER, you must change that number to be the amount of the Wages that came from either the employer's insurance company (in this case, this is probably on a separate W-2, so the entire Wages amount if tax-exempt PFL), or if the W-2 is from your employer, you should enter ONLY the amount in Wages that came from the employer's VPDI - which may well be zero.

 

If none of the Wages amount was VPDI but was other employer compensation (like accrued vacation days, sick leave, etc.), then you must enter zero, because TurboTax wants ONLY the amount of the Wages box that was actual PFL, not to what too many people casually refer to PFL when it is not.

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