except for as stated, it's not any kind of earned income. It is not a wage of any kind, he performed no work whatsoever to get this money, which is basically a Christmas gift. He is retired, disabled, can barely walk some days. It is merely a Christmas check this union sends out each year from a bonus fund depending on if the fund earns money that year. It's not a bonus for working, it's a bonus paid when the Christmas bonus fund earns money over and above a certain amount , so it's paid out to union members and retirees. The other union he worked for & gets a Christmas check for reported their Christmas bonus checks to retirees on a 1099R (so, problem solved), this union just happens to report it on a 1099 MISC, which is causing problems. When we moved and he stopped working for the union that issued the 1099, he never got another Christmas check. Those Christmas checks only started when he began drawing retirement (early, for disability). But his retirement from them is on a 1099-R. Can I just manually enter this 1099 misc. income that was in no way related to wages as other income on line 8 of Schedule 1?
