Filing US tax return when you received German Arbeitlosgeld

Hi, I am doing my taxes through Andrea Luehmann, Ltd, Chicago in addition to a german tax office around here. You could ask them for advice.
[email protected]. The front desk lady is Frau Reinartz.
When you do your taxes (for the US) do not forget to add the D/USA 101 Form so you dont double-pay. You will get that at Bundesrentenanstalt Berlin. Hope that helps.

I'm not sure if benefits are taxed as regular income but I would suspect so. The thing is that it very likely doesn't matter as far as tax obligation to the States.

Few US expats end up owing any tax because they can take either the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, which is over 100,000 USD or Foreign Tax Credits. So one would have to be a very high earner with a local very low tax rate or lots of unearned income to have tax obligation - although one is still obliged to file. So almost certainly, if you give them the benefit of the doubt and report the benefits as income, you still won't owe anything on it. So it's not worth getting overly stressed about.

Ah ok. That makes sense. Thank you very much for your advise!
Have a good one and stay healthy