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The deduction for seniors is gradually reduced if Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) is over $75,000 ($150,000 if married filing jointly), so if your income is over that amount you will not get the full $6,000 per person. If MAGI is $175,000 or more ($250,000 if married filing jointly) the deduction is eliminated completely. MAGI for purposes of this deduction is Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) plus the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, Foreign Housing Exclusion or Deduction, and excluded income from sources in Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. For most people MAGI will be the same as AGI.  

There are a couple questions you could have answered wrong under My Info.  Click on My Info then click Edit by Dependents, then click Edit by their name and go though all the screens again.   First of all check their date of birth.  Also you need to enter a ssn for them.  And say her ssn is valid for employment.   If your child was away at college, count the number of months away as having lived with you.  The correct answer to claim the person is to say "the whole year". This will indicate you supported the person the whole year, thus it will be entered on your return correctly showing up as a dependent   Or the one that says did your CHILD pay more than half of their support.  It's not asking if you did.   If you can't get it to change then try completely deleting them and re-entering them.  Sometimes that helps to clear something out.

I am well aware of that.  I have always been able to manually enter the 1099R info prior to all changes are in Turbo Tax.  With doing that, I get a very good look at what it will look like when all changes are in...fyi, I am also aware of the tax changes so I account for that in my projected calculations...... My intent for the original post was simply to state that Turbo Tax was different in that respect (and many users have agreed....) not to be preached to about paying quarterly taxes on time.

You will need to finish on the Desktop program.   You will need a full Windows or Mac computer to install the Desktop program.  You will have to print and mail the returns.   How to finish a return you started online https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-finish-a-prior-year-return-that-i-started-in-turbotax-online/01/26322

The amount from box 5 of your 2021 Form SSA-1099 should be on line 6a of your 2021 Form 1040. Be sure to use line 6a, not 6b. The error message about line B means that you entered an amount for "Taxable Social Security benefits in 2021" but you did not enter the amount from box 5 of your 2021 Form SSA-1099. When you enter the box 5 amount the error message should go away.   The taxable Social Security benefits in 2021 is the amount on line 6b of your 2021 Form 1040.