Yes, you’ll need to include the $600 exclusion from your federal return as income on your California return.
To do this, when you’re going through the California interview in TurboTax:
- The initial health insurance questions, starting with Did you both have health insurance coverage in 2021?, won’t address the COBRA issue. Answer those questions fully, then continue through the interview.
- Eventually, you’ll come to the Here's the income that California handles differently screen.
- Scroll down to Medical, then select Start to the right of COBRA Premium Assistance.
- On the Enter COBRA premium assistance subsidies excluded from federal income page, enter the amount excluded from your federal return, then select Continue.
Please see COBRA premium assistance in the 2021 Instructions for Schedule CA (540)California Adjustments for more information.
