Thanks for the reply, Hal. Unfortunately, the issue has nothing to do with the complexity of taking this credit or the information I entered. I discovered it is very clearly a TurboTax software bug as everything is entered correctly and I continue to get this error message when I get to the "Review" stage in TurboTax. The error that TurboTax finds is that the IRS 1098-T Tuition Statement Worksheet requires that you fill in the name of the actual student in the "Identify Student" line -- either you or your child -- and despite what I have correctly entered in TurboTax, TurboTax does fill in the line for my son (or for me!) in the worksheet. I can see that in the actual lRS 1098-T Tuition Statement Worksheet form that's produced when I select PRINT RETURN at the end of the process.
What I later noticed when checking the return via PRINT RETURN is that Turbo Tax had generated three separate lRS 1098-T Tuition Statement Worksheets, when only one is required. One version of the Worksheet correctly filled in the "Identify Student" line as my son. The other two versions left that line item blank. So this is the error that TurboTax caught -- an error TurboTax created by somehow generating two extra, unnecessary copies of the 1098-T Tuition Statement Worksheets.
I checked my entries again in TurboTax and there was nowhere that I could have entered this information multiple times. The only thing I can think of is that I could have edited the entries at various times ... but that shouldn't have caused TurboTax to generate multiple versions.
SO, since there's no way Intuit will discover and fix this bug in time for me to get my taxes filed, I started a brand new tax return and spent hours re-entering and checking all my information. And voila, my return no longer includes three versions of the 1098-T Tuition Statement Worksheet and I am no longer receiving this error.
Note to Intuit: please fix your bugs.
