All I did is enter in the value that is in Box 1 in Box 14. It accepted the change and the NYS return got transmitted OK.
Personally I think this is a bug in TurboTax. I looked at my 2015, 2016, and 2017 1099Rs. All of them had "blank" in Box 14 which came from Merrill Lynch that way.
Did not have this problem with my 2015 or 2016 Returns.
Turbotax needs to fix this bug.
