I set up a spouse paycheck. It has a pretax 401k employee contribution but no employer match. Everything seems fine but when I do a report from the Categories listing for _401KEmployerContrib that paycheck is listed rather than under _401KEmployeeContribSpouse. Any ideas why & how to fix. I have verified that the paycheck is under Salary:spouse.
TIA, Barbara
You do not say what version of Quicken you are using.
The initial release of Q2006 had a bug that caused the problem you report. But that bug was supposedly fixed in the first patch (R2) to Q2006.
If you are using Q2006, check your release (Help > About Quicken); if you have Q2006, R1, upgrade to the next-to-the-most current release, R4. (I think you might want to avoid the most current release, R5 - or QA5 - for a while, it has been causing some problems during the install). You can get manual update files at Intuit's web site and download them, and run them to update Quicken. (Actually you only need the R4 file to update to R4, but I always get every manual update file, so I can control exactly what release I run).
Look here for Q2006 manual updates (look at the "Related Answers" at the bottom of the page).
Sorry I forgot to mention. Quicken 2006 Premier. I have R5 actually & it installed just fine. I tired again to set up a new paycheck making sure I entered it as Employee spouse salary in case that might have contributed to it but no still comes up as Employee contribution.
"Barbara L" wrote
Before I responded to your original post, I created a paycheck transaction with a 401k pretax contribution for a spouse in Q2006 R4; it was correctly categorized.
I don't think it matters, but you might check to see if the 401k account is a spouse account. And you might try testing in a New Quicken file.
I have no idea what the problem might be.
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