topic I have health insurance for the last 5 months of 2016, and also, I have ECN number. all my dependent covered by Medicaid. turbotax said penalty waived. do need ECN or not in Get your taxes done using TurboTax https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/i-have-health-insurance-for-the-last-5-months-of-2016-and-also-i-have-ecn-number-all-my-dependent/01/142054#M59195 turbotax said penalty waived and no place to put ECN Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:08:09 GMT akrmawami 2019-06-01T07:08:09Z I have health insurance for the last 5 months of 2016, and also, I have ECN number. all my dependent covered by Medicaid. turbotax said penalty waived. do need ECN or not https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/i-have-health-insurance-for-the-last-5-months-of-2016-and-also-i-have-ecn-number-all-my-dependent/01/142054#M59195 turbotax said penalty waived and no place to put ECN Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:08:09 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/i-have-health-insurance-for-the-last-5-months-of-2016-and-also-i-have-ecn-number-all-my-dependent/01/142054#M59195 akrmawami 2019-06-01T07:08:09Z If you have an ECN and you did not have health insurance... https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/if-you-have-an-ecn-and-you-did-not-have-health-insurance/01/142058#M59197 <P>If you have an ECN and you did not have health insurance for all or part of 2016, here's how to enter it.</P><P>- When asked, Did you have health insurance coverage in 2016?, select either the second or third option, depending on your 2016 situation, and Continue.</P><P>- If you had insurance part of the year, select the months you had insurance for and Continue.</P><P>- On the Did you have a situation that waives the tax penalty for being uninsured? screen, scroll down to Applied for a penalty exemption, and select Got an exemption certificate number from the Marketplace and Continue.</P><P>- On the Let's get your exemption certificate number (ECN) screen, select or enter the requested information and Continue.</P><P>- We'll submit this info with your tax return and the tax penalty will be waived for all months and people the ECNs apply to.</P><P></P><P>If this helped you, please up-vote this answer so I know you were taken care of 100%. If we need to work together further to get it resolved, please comment...we'll get it taken care of together.<BR /><BR />I'm here to help.</P> Sat, 01 Jun 2019 07:08:11 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/if-you-have-an-ecn-and-you-did-not-have-health-insurance/01/142058#M59197 JohnC11 2019-06-01T07:08:11Z