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Income – Unemployment Compensation

This lesson is designed to teach you how to assist taxpayers who received unemployment compensation payments.

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Check your understanding of unemployment compensation. Indicate whether each of the statements below is true or false by clicking on the correct answer. To check your answers, click the Check My Answers button at the bottom of the page.

  1. When Colten was laid off, he received state unemployment compensation totaling $4,000 before finding a new job. He will report $4,000 as unemployment income.
  • A.
  • B.
  1. In most cases, unemployment compensation is taxable.
  • A.
  • B.