I collected unemployment benefits from Illinois while living here in PA. I did not earn any other income in PA, so I have some questions.
1) Should I file 2 separate part-year resident returns for IL and PA (what I am currently doing)?
2) Which state do I file my unemployment benefits received? - From research it seems like PA, but when filling out my part-year resident return there is no space to enter this - unless I manually enter it as Miscellaneous Compensation with the closest "type of income" being "nonemployee compensation."
However,
When filing my IL part-year resident return I receive the following prompt:
Illinois Part-Year and Nonresidents:
Allocate all or a portion of the income reported on your federal return to Illinois based on the length of your residency or the source of the income.
Enter the amount that applies to the time you were an Illinois resident or to your activities in Illinois.
Unemployment compensation
Federal Total $X,XXX
Then I am asked to "Enter the amount that applies to the time you were an Illinois resident or to your activities in Illinois." in the Illinois column.
I received the money while in Pennsylvania but they pertain to my activities (employers) in Illinois - so I am not sure if I should enter the federal total here or in another place in my PA part-year resident return.
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Since I have earned no income in PA, I am not even positive I should be filing a PA part-year resident return if this unemployment does not apply.
Those are my big questions but also an additional detail -
3) The 10a State Box on my 1099-G was left blank, but I am required to fill in that detail when going through the TurboTax process - I am assuming to select Illinois since that is the state that issued it, but also know this correlates to State Income Tax witheld so want to be sure not to actually list PA here.
Thank you so much for any clarification you can provide, it has definitely been an unusual year!
