Dear forum!
Here is the situation: Brother married and had chosen family coverage in a HDHP plan with HSA for January thru June. Wife then got another job and started insurance plan (not HDHP w/ HSA) as self-insured only at her job. Brother then switched coverage from July-Dec as self-only coverage in the same HDHP w/ HSA plan.
Contribution on W2, box 12W was $1792.50 ($480 taken from paychecks, $1312.50 employer contribution for the year).
Questions: Brother and his wife are married, filing taxes jointly. Do I fill out a separate Form 8889 for each of them? They don't have separate HSA accts (only HSA was what was contributed to the plan while they were on a family plan together for the first 6 months), so I am assuming one form for both will be good...correct?
But then Part I, 1-should it be self or family coverage (for each, if filing separate forms, or both?). What to put on lines 3 and 6? For line 3-he was considered an eligible individual on the first day of the last month of the tax year, but she wasn't...so if I use the Limitation chart n WS to calculate the amt then I get two different amounts for each of them-how would that work if I'm filling only one form 8889? Agh!
I keep reading and re-reading the instructions, but his particular situation is not listed as an example...since the wife doesn't continue having another HSA acct at her other job...
Thank you for any and all help!

