Anyone dealt with the Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association 109-misc form. I received payments for the hero pay but it keeps asking about self business?

[fatboymcghees]

Anyone dealt with the Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association 1099-misc form. I received payments for the hero pay but it keeps asking about self business.  I do not work as a self business

[AliciaP1]

You should be entering your 1099-MISC as "Other Common Income" on the Income and Expenses page and not under "Self-Employment".

Follow these steps to enter your 1099-MISC:

1. Open or continue your return
2. Select the magnifying glass and search for 1099-misc. Select the Jump-to link
3. Answer Yes to Did you get a 1099-MISC?
   • If you already entered a 1099-MISC, you'll be on the 1099-MISC Summary screen, in which case you'll select Add Another 1099-MISC
   • If you need to edit or delete a previously entered 1099-MISC, select the appropriate button
4. Enter the info from your form into the corresponding boxes
   • If you need to enter boxes 4–6 or 8–17, check My form has other info in boxes 1–17 to enter into TurboTax

[MamaMonkeyBread]

@AliciaP1 Thank you for the help. I think the confusion comes when, upon entering the 1099-Misc for Hero Pay, TT asks, "Did the Hero Pay involve work that's like __'s main job?" We received Hero Pay automatically for being child care workers, so the only real option is "Yes."  But then it says you will be able to apply deductions, and automatically creates data under business income." If you say, "No," then it asks if the Hero Pay involved an intent to earn money.  If you answer, "No," (which, we didn't intend to earn money; it was an unexpected government payment, and not extra work done for the money), then it increases our refund/decreases tax payment. 

Like @fatboymcghees, I am trying to determine the most accurate way to answer. Thank you for any additional help you can provide.

[AliciaP1]

When you enter a 1099-MISC or 1099-NEC the refund monitor tends to reflect the assumption that the income is self-employed income and calculates the additional self-employment tax.  When you, correctly, respond "no" to the "involve work like __'s main job", TurboTax adjusts and takes away the additional tax.  So end result is your refund should go up and if it's showing an amount due, that should go down.

[merson_1]

I am dealing with the same exact concern (doing taxes for my daughter and she also got hero pay for being a child care worker).  For the question 'did the hero pay involve an intent to earn money?', did you put Yes or No?  this is a confusing situation to say the least.  neither seems to actually be correct.

The Turbo Tax response does not seem to state which to select to get the correct input.

Thank you for your help.

[RobertB4444]

Hero Pay was earned because Ohio decided to pay it to you. 

They paid it to you for being cool NOT for doing work like your main job. 

SO you will answer NO to the question of whether you earned this money doing a job just like your main job and NO to the question of whether there was an intent to earn money.