If you repay unemployment benefits that you received in an earlier year, you report the repayment on your tax return for the year in which you repaid it. You do not amend your tax return for the year that you received the benefits. So if you received unemployment in 2020 and 2021, and you repay part of it in 2022 or 2023, you will report the repayment on your 2022 or 2023 tax return. The repayment in 2022 or 2023 does not affect your 2020 or 2021 tax return. The question that you recall seeing in TurboTax asked if you repaid any benefits in the same year that you received it.
