"Alternative Family Size" Form 8962

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March 20, 2020
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For my health insurance last year I used healthcare.gov. I am doing an alternative calculation on my 2019 return because I married my wife in November 2019.

I am being asked to put in my "Alternative Family Size" on form 8962.

What do I put here?

Really appreciate the help

MinhT1

Level 15

To trigger the alternative marriage calculation, immediately after entering your form 1095-A, TurboTax will display a page titled Let us know if these situations apply to you. On that page, check the box I got married in 2019.

TurboTax will properly populate your form 8962.

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avigo45Author

Level 5

I'm trying to understand the actual form.

On the form, there is a box for "alternative family size".

What would I put in this box and why?

I would assume I would put "1" here since the alternate calculation is only applying to me, since I was married late in 2019 and that health insurance only applied to me in 2019 (not my wife)

I know it can be automatically populated, I just like to know why and was curious if anyone here knew why.

Thanks