You may need to contact the administrator who sent you the 1099-R.
One purpose of box 5 is to report distributions for dollars for insurance premiums paid by the plan administrator (in which ca...
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You may need to contact the administrator who sent you the 1099-R.
One purpose of box 5 is to report distributions for dollars for insurance premiums paid by the plan administrator (in which case, there should be an entry on box 1), so a corrected 1099-R may be in order.
Or if box 5 has "employee contributions", then this number was probably auto-printed on every 1099-R, even if there were no distributions, in which case, as the others said, if this is what the plan administrator intended, you can just dispose of the 1099-R.
I am just concerned that this might be a 1099-R that was printed in error, so a call to the plan administrator would make you feel better about trashing that document.