There is not a Box 6a on a SSA-1099. There is a box 6 which would have the federal taxes withheld, if any.
Did you enter your Social Security SSA1099 in the right place? If you entered it as a 1099R by mistake that is why you are not seeing it on line 6a.
Go to Federal> Wages & Income>>Retirement Plans and Social Security (SSA1099 and 1099RRB) to enter your SSA1099.
If you entered in the wrong place you will need to delete the incorrect entry.
Oh, you are referring to Line 6a on the Form 1040. If you did not enter your SSA-1099 in the correct section of the program then Line 6a would not have an entry.
To enter Social Security benefits reported on form SSA-1099
Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business)
Click on Wages and Income (Personal Income using Home and Business)
Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown)
Scroll down to Retirement Plans and Social Security
On Social Security (SSA-1099, RRB-1099), click the start or update button
Or enter ssa-1099 in the Search box located in the upper right of the program screen. Click on Jump to ssa-1099
Form 1040 and 1040SR are identical. All the lines are the same. If your Social Security is not showing on line 6a of a 1040 or 1040SR and you are sure you entered it, then you entered it in the wrong place.
The only difference between 1040 and 1040SR is the larger print for a 1040SR.
@dendarstrand wrote:
re: 6a on 1040-SR
Form 1040 and Form 1040-SR are exactly the same.
@dendarstrand What is the real issue? Did you already e-file without entering your Social Security?
yes, already filed yesterday. I did all the prompts and no prompts or questions re: SSA berifits??
@dendarstrand You e-filed without entering all of your income. So, now you wait for the IRS to fully process your tax return and then you need to amend to add the SSA1099. Do not amend until the IRS has processed the original return.
See this TurboTax support FAQ for amending a tax return - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/amend-change-correct-return-a...
I don't understand how this happened? There was never a prompt or place to put the SSA income?
had I not read the full print out page by page later, I would have never known?
@dendarstrand When you use do-it-yourself tax software it is your responsibility to check your own return to make sure you entered all of your income. TurboTax cannot check to make sure you entered it all or check outside sources for you to see if it was entered correctly without typos.
When you are entering income, you have a choice to let the software "Walk me through everything" or "I'll choose what I work on." If you choose "Walk me through everything" then it will eventually take you to a screen that asks if you had any Social Security. If you skipped around then you cannot expect TT to know you had a SSA1099.
So....you did check and discovered that your SS was not entered. But you checked after you e-filed. The return can be fixed. You will amend it using a 1040X after it has been processed.
You might not need to amend. Your SS might not be taxable. Was any of it taxable on line 6b last year? What is your 2023 AGI on line 11?
Up to 85% of Social Security becomes taxable when all your other income plus 1/2 your social security, reaches:
Married Filing Jointly: $32,000
Single or head of household: $25,000
Married Filing Separately: 0