These option responses provided are work-arounds to "fudge" the Turbo Tax Software such that it will work, plus you have to have faith ("wing-and-a-prayer") that it resolves itself when working the State section of the software later. The real problem is the Turbo Tax software! And this problem has been generated in the last 12 months because I've never had this issue in the 24 prior years that I've been retired military and using Turbo Tax. Even if you do enter the Box 1 or 2a amount to "fudge" the software to make it work, you are setting yourself up to lie in the next screen when it asks "does the data match what's on the 1099-R form?". Obviously it doesn't!! Fix the software error!!!! You should not be advising people to "fudge" anything.
