I
am retired, age 67, receiving a pension and on Medicare. My wife and two
daughters have medical coverage through my previous employer; a High Deductible
Health Plan with a Health Savings Account (HSA). Contributions to the HSA to
date have only been made by my previous employer. Turbotax is asking if my wife
has put any money into an HSA during 2016, pointing out that this includes everything
your employer contributed too. If I answer yes (due to the employer’s
contribution) the next page that pops-up is prefilled with $0 for the employer
since it is a W-2 reporting item. In our particular case, there is no W-2,
since I am retired. Since I have recorded info from the Form 1099-SA we
received reflecting a gross distribution it would appear to be problematic to
have Turbotax reflect $0 contributions to the HSA. Is there another way to
enter the employer’s contribution other than via the W-2 recording?
Is the HSA in your wife's name? If the HSA is in your name and you are on Medicare, you (nor your company) are no longer eligible to contribute to your HSA.
Assuming that your HSA is properly set up, you can indicate the employer contribution here:
To enter pre-tax contributions that were not reported with code "W" in box 12 on your W-2, go to Federal Taxes->Deductions & Credits->Medical->HSA, MSA Contributions. Start the HSA interview.
Go to the screen entitled “Did your employer tell you about any other contributions?”. Even though the line underneath the heading makes a comment about contributions made to a previous year, answer “yes”.
This will show three more questions at the bottom. The last question is “Employer and payroll contributions not reported in Box 12 of your W-2”.
Enter your pre-tax employer contributions that were not entered with code “W” in box 12 on the W-2 here in the space to the right.
NOTE: you haven't mentioned if these employer contributions were pre-tax or after-tax. Are you getting a 1099-R or a 1099-MISC for these contributions? If so, you would enter this amount on the screen entitled "Let's enter [name]'s HSA contributions" on the line that reads "Any contributions you personally made (not through your employer)".