I went through these steps, which I repeated several times, and it magically appears to have worked. That is, the $20,000 deduction was gone. One thing though that did need to change is the entry on the New York portion where Turbo Tax asks to verify the Government Pension Exclusion. Turbo Tax populates with the higher, total amount of the pension, not the slightly lower taxable amount. When corrected, the total New York Taxable amount was zero, not a negative number. So, I think its fixed for me. There were no errors reported
Thank you for your help.
