Artículo Cafeteria plans.. Cafeteria plans.

id="en_US_2025_publink1000236654"> Cafeteria plans. In most cases, if you’re covered by an accident or health insurance plan through a cafeteria plan, and the amount of the insurance premiums wasn’t included in your income, you aren’t considered to have paid the premiums and you must include any benefits you receive in your income. If the amount of the premiums was included in your income, you’re considered to have paid the premiums, and any benefits you receive aren’t taxable. Disability Pensions If you retired on disability, you must include in income any disability pension you receive under a plan that is paid for by your employer. You must report your taxable disability payments on line 1h of Form 1040 or 1040-SR until you reach minimum retirement age. Minimum retirement age is generally the age at which you can first receive a pension or annuity if you’re not disabled. . You may be entitled to a tax credit if you were permanently and totally disabled when you retired. For information on this credit and the definition of permanent and total disability, see Pub. 524, Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled. . Beginning on the day after you reach minimum retirement age, payments you receive are taxable as a pension or annuity. Report the payments on lines 5a and 5b of Form 1040 or 1040-SR. The rules for reporting pensions are explained in Disability Pensions in Pub. 575. For information on disability payments from a governmental program provided as a substitute for unemployment compensation, see Unemployment Benefits in chapter 8. Retirement and profit-sharing plans. If you receive payments from a retirement or profit-sharing plan that doesn’t provide for disability retirement, don’t treat the payments as a disability pension. The payments must be reported as a pension or annuity. For more information on pensions, see Pub. 575. Accrued leave payment. If you retire on disability, any lump-sum payment you receive for accrued annual leave is a salary payment. The payment is not a disability payment. Include it in your income in the tax year you receive it. Military and Government Disability Pensions Certain military and government disability pensions aren’t taxable. Service-connected disability. You may be able to exclude from income amounts you receive as a pension, an annuity, or similar allowance for personal injury or sickness resulting from active service in one of the following government services. The armed forces of any country. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Public Health Service. The Foreign Service. Conditions for exclusion. Don’t include the disability payments in your income if any of the following conditions apply. You were entitled to receive a disability payment before September 25, 1975. You were a member of a listed government service or its reserve component, or were under a binding written commitment to become a member, on September 24, 1975. You receive the disability payments for a combat-related injury. This is a personal injury or sickness that: Results directly from armed conflict; Takes place while you’re engaged in extra-hazardous service; Takes place under conditions simulating war, including training exercises such as maneuvers; or Is caused by an instrumentality of war. You would be entitled to receive disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) if you filed an application for it. Your exclusion under this condition is equal to the amount you would be entitled to receive from the VA. Pension based on years of service. If you receive a disability pension based on years of service, in most cases you must include it in your income. However, if the pension qualifies for the exclusion for a service-connected disability (discussed earlier), don’t include in income the part of your pension that you would have received if the pension had been based on a percentage of disability. You must include the rest of your pension in your income. Retroactive VA determination.<