Yes -- I agree that there is still a problem with the TTx reporting questions for NEC even if my own situation suggests that I should have received report of "miscellaneous income" on 1099-MISC so there would be no "compensation" confusion. I am going to try to get the form replaced by prior employer, but will keep checking back to see if there is some kind of fix for the NEC reporting questions. As you say, if "legal settlement" is one of the options for explaining the purpose of the payment, then the program should not be creating error messages for that response. Many thanks for your careful analysis.
