American Rescue Plan calculation seems incorrect - divided spouse's unemployment and applied 1/2 to each of us

[stacycdrj]

Married filing jointly in a community state. But only one of use received unemployment. TurboTax says if both receive unemployment, then add together and take 50% each. Then for each of us, up to first $10.200, is tax free.  Seems to have done this, but it took my spouse's unemployment  and added to mine which was $0.00 and divided that between the two of us.  I think the software should have recognized that only one of us had unemployment and so just made it tax free on the first $10,200 for my spouse only. So, is this a calculation error?

[Critter-3]

Not an error ... the program is handling it correctly.  This is one of the odd places where filing in a community property state is a good thing.  

[macuser_22]

Correct.  In a community property state, unemployment is community property so each spouse enters 1/2 and each spouse gets their own $10,200 exemption.   That is to your advantage if the unemployment exceeds $10,200.