I received a SSA 1099 that has a negative number due to me not receiving benefits and paying an overpayment.
I did get SSDI and SSI for a few years, but I never worked until recently. I did not file a tax return for these years because I never had enough income in SSI or SSDI. Therefore, these benefits were never subject to tax.
I just finished using turbo tax, I have paid but I not filed anything yet. When it asked me to review my documents for errors, I took a look over everything and I noticed line 6a and 6b on 1040 were blank. In the instructions for my SSA 1099, it says if my benefits are not taxable, but I must otherwise file a return, I should put the amount on line 6a and put a "0" for line 6b for form 1040.
I did input the negative amount for the social security payments section when turbo tax was interviewing me, it did give me warning to review it saying while a negative amount is valid, I should check it over.
Any ideas why this number did not get added to line 6a and why there is no 0 for 6b? Is it because it is not taxable? If it isn't taxable do I need to worry about it being there? Can I edit this manually or is there something I'm missing to add it in?
if the benefits were not taxable the repayment should not be entered. so leave it off your return.