No, there is no other way to report this income and have the amount appear separately in the numerator of the foreign taxable income since you did not pay tax on it. Besides if you reported this separately, you would lose the tax benefit of having this taxed as a social security benefit as the entire amount of the pension distribution would be ordinary income. Best not to get too cute with this.
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