This is not a "glitch"; instead, the program is working correctly.
Contributions to your Dependent Care FSA are tax-free only if you can show that you paid for qualified Child and Dependent Care benefits in 2022. That is, if you contributed $1,000 to your FSA in 2022, and this amount appeared in box 10 on your W-2, then you have to show $1,000 in payments to providers of the care in 2022.
Note that before your W-2 is printed, the box 10 amount is removed from Wages in Box 1, so this income already starts out as "tax-free" (well, pre-tax). So if your return does not document that the Box 10 amount was spent on qualifying child and dependent care services, the box 10 has to be added back to income.
So, as soon as your W-2 is entered, the Box 10 amount is added back to your income, until such point as you demonstrate that the contributions to the FSA were matched by qualified expenses for child care services. This is not a case of TurboTax filling out a "false 2441"; it's just a case of TurboTax having to add back the Box 10 amount until you enter the required expenses to document them.
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