I'm doing taxes for my father, who passed away, and I have no idea what the start date was for his retirement annuity. How do I answer this?

[MichaelL1]

Can you look at 2017 return?

I assume there is no amount in box 2a of the 1099R correct?

See if you can access the 2017 return and save with all worksheets as a pdf and then it will have this on it, if he used TurboTax in prior years.

Sorry for your loss.

[ester5252]

I haven't found any previous tax year's returns and he actually received an RRB-1099 (blue copy) and RRB 1099-R (green copies) so I don't even know which of those to use to file and neither have a box 2a

[MichaelL1]

OK those go in the Social Security area of TurboTax.  I'll post an answer below as you will not enter anything then in the 1099R area so delete that.

[MichaelL1]

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