Yes, I have heard that getting information from DFAS on HSA issues can be difficult.
The pass-through amount may have been included as part of your HDHP premium, which is found also in box 12 with a code of DD (the amount here is the sum of what you paid and what your employer paid for health insurance premiums).
If the pass-through amount of $1,800 was included here, then you are OK - it was also removed from Wages in boxes 1, 3, and 5 on your W-2.
To enter the $1,800 as an HSA contribution, please do the following:
- Go to Federal Taxes->Deductions & Credits->Medical and click on "HSA MSA Contributions".
- Go to the screen entitled "Did your employer tell you about any other contributions?"
- Click on "yes" to exposes the bottom three lines
- Enter the amount of the pass-through on the last line ("Employer and payroll contributions not reported in box 12 of your W-2")
Now TurboTax will know that $12,400 was contributed to your HSA and calculate the correct excess of $5,300.
We want TurboTax to calculate the excess, because otherwise form 8889 won't be populated correctly (you can't do it directly).
P.S. My comments about lines 2, 9, and 13 above are still correct - line 2 should be zero, line 9 should be 12,400, and line 13 should be zero (and maybe line 12, too).
Do you enter different values in Forms mode? Please don't, just let TurboTax do its thing.
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