What is the FEMA Disaster Number for Form 8915-E Worksheet?

[DoninGA · Accepted solution]

Form 8915-E was used for coronavirus-related and other 2020 disaster distributions only.

If your only disaster is the coronavirus in 2020 you do not enter a FEMA Disaster Number in box C of the Form 8915-E.

[Camborita]

First of all - thanks for the above post advising a disaster number is not needed.

Intuit Team - how about fixing this error in TurboTax???  The "Smartcheck" constantly prompts that field to be completed even if the only disaster distribution was for Coronavirus.  If is it not required, then STOP prompting to "correct" an error that is NOT an error.

The previous posted solutions from 2022 (in other threads) about entering a "space" in that field do not work for 2023.  My solution was to just ignore the "error" and file, since it is not actually an error on that form if related to Coronavirus only.

Intuit Team - please fix this.  You are wasting people's time with this erroneous error notification.

[Camborita]

Unfortunately, I've just learned that by ignoring the "error", TurboTax refuses to submit the e-filing.  A space in that field doesn't work.  Multiple spaces in that field doesn't work.  "N/A" doesn't work.  Still trying to find something that TurboTax will accept in that field (even though NOTHING should be required there).  Huge waste of my time!

[Camborita]

Finally got it to work - by blanking out that field (again).  Not sure why it wouldn't take the other multiple times I tried that before.  Very frustrating and an hour of time wasted reading posts and fighting with TurboTax.

Hope this helps someone else...

[DoninGA]

@Camborita What exactly are you trying to report?  Did you have a disaster distribution in 2021, 2022 or 2022?

Or did you have a distribution in 2020 due to the Coronavirus and selected to pay back the distribution in three years, 2020, 2021 and 2022?  If this is the case did you finish paying back all of the 2020 distribution in 2022?