Thank you but still unsure if this would be considered qualified retirement income for ME since I am the one filing as a single person who never received this strs benefit as my own personal retirement income. I’m simply receiving it as a surviving wife. So if it’s not qualified for me then do I need to designate it as non-qualified when I’m filing my Ohio state return? Because I now have my own personal retirement income that qualifies me for the Ohio retirement income credit. So sounds like you are suggesting that if I did not
have my own personal retirement income, then I could still consider my STRS survivor benefit as qualified retired income in order to get the retirement income credit.
