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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Lauber finds a married couple underreported the wife’s taxable Social Security benefits received for tax year 2019. The taxpayers reported only $5,202 in taxable Social Security benefits, which was 85 percent of the $6,120 cash payment they received from the Social Security Administration (SSA) for that year. But the wife actually received $19,866 in Social Security benefits that year, with $1,080 paid to the IRS, and $12,666 not being disbursed as it was a workers’ compensation offset. While they did not receive the disbursement on the workers’ compensation offset, it must still be reported as Social Security income, therefore the instant court finds they taxpayers must include an additional $11,684 of Social Security benefits in their gross income for tax year 2019.