Yes "placed" = contributed. This excess of money that is on my W-2 box 12 was my bonus form the 2019 and I had the option to defer to my HSA for the year 2020. It then was deposited into my HSA on 1-2-2020. My bank says that it will not be contribution for 2019 as it wasn't deposited in the year 2020 and not 2019. As far as my employers goes, it is a 2019 bonus that they didn't deposit until 1-2-2020. However the total is still in box 12 of the W-2 which result in an overage of the HSA maximum allowable amount of 7,000 in 2019.
