Following up from My previous post , I am trying to find out how to enter IHSS live-in provider W2 with Zero in Box 1.
1) I don't see "Nontaxable Medicaid waiver payments" under "Let’s check for uncommon situations." in step 5 of the instructions that were given below in that post.
If you received a W-2 with $0 in Box 1:
- Sign in to TurboTax Online, click Continue to your return, then pick up where I left off (if you are using TurboTax CD/ Download, then just open your return on your computer);
- Click on Federal Taxes, and then click on Wages & Income;
- Under Wages and Income, click Start;
- Click on Work on my W-2, and enter the information as reported on your W-2.
- After entering all your W-2s, you will see the screen, Let’s check for uncommon situations. Next to Nontaxable Medicaid waiver payments, check the box.
- You will enter the amount of Medicaid Waiver Payments into the box asking for the total amount of difficulty of care payment you received from IHHS. This will be the same amount reported in Boxes 3 and 5 of your W-2.
- When you get to the Earned Income Credit section under the Deductions and Credits portion of your return, you will be asked if you want to add your Medicaid waiver payment to your income for this credit. You can try it both ways, including it and excluding it from the calculation for the credit and see which way benefits you most
2) Box 15 seems to be empty in Turbox after importing the W2 , but it shows CA in my W2. So I added that manually. Hope that's ok.
3) All the values got imported except box 12a II which has 38k in my W2. Please advise what to do.. Should I manually choose drop down 12 A in Turbo Tax which says Uncollected Social Security and that 38K manually, should I choose 12A II which says "Medicaid waiver payments excluded from gross income under notice 2014-7?
