I got a W2 from the insurance company that paid my long term disability.
 It has one amount for "Wages, tips, and comp." and a totally different
and MUCH smaller amount for "social security wages" and "medicare
wages".  Evidently they only withheld social security and medicare from
the lesser amount.  Now, I presume I have to pay taxes on the larger
amount (which sucks because the customer service rep told me that the
payments weren't taxable when I asked why tax wasn't being taken out),
but why are the two amounts so different? Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Carole