Q. Why are the institutions putting the amounts received from GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon in Block 5 if they are NOT taxable?
A. You'll have to ask the school that question. In my opinion it's part they don't know any better and part they think they're being helpful. Note the original poster's confusion because it wasn't in box 5.
For most people it's not really "wrong", if box 1 is more than box 5 by more than $4000.
