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Yes, AARP health insurance premiums can be claimed as Medical expenses.   You can claim all medical and dental bills, prescription drugs and health insurance premiums paid out-of-pocket as Medical Expenses in Schedule A - Itemized Deductions.   The IRS has an extensive list of what you can and can’t deduct.   For tax year 2025, Medical Expenses are subject to the 7.5% rule and you can only claim the excess over 7.5% of your Adjusted Gross Income.   Please note that Itemized Deductions will only benefit your taxes when they exceed your standard deduction.   For tax year 2025, standard deductions are: $31,500 for married couples whose filing status is “married filing jointly” and surviving spouses; $15,750 for singles and married couples whose filing status is “married filing separately”; and $23,625 for taxpayers whose filing status is “head of household.”   The additional standard deduction for a blind taxpayer—i.e. a taxpayer whose vision is less than 20/200— and for a taxpayer who is age 65 or older at the end of the year is for each instance: $1,600 for married individuals; and $2,000 for singles and heads of household.   A new, temporary additional deduction of $6,000 for those aged 65 and older (or $12,000 for a married couple if both qualify) is also available for tax years 2025 through 2028. The deduction begins to phase out at income greater than $75,000 and $150,000 if you’re married filing jointly. This is in addition to the standard deduction or itemized deductions.    Here's how to enter your medical expenses in TurboTax: Open or continue your return. Navigate to the Schedule A section: TurboTax Online/Mobile: Go to Schedule A. TurboTax Desktop: Search for Schedule A and then select the Jump to link.

Once your return is filed, TurboTax has no control over the processing or the timing when the IRS releases your refund.    The IRS Where's My Refund site will not take into account the 5 days early, but if you signed up for the 5 Day Early product, you should receive your refund deposited 5 days prior to the date indicated by the IRS, assuming all conditions are met.   For more information click on the link below 5 Days Early Option   If you don't get your deposit 5 days early, there is a few reasons why that might happen.   Your refund was offset or differed from their estimated refund amount, bringing the refund amount below the minimum threshold or above the maximum. What is a refund offset? Your bank wouldn't accept RTP (Real Time Payments) or Same Day ACH deposits, preventing Intuit from depositing your refund 5 days ahead of when the IRS would have deposited your refund. The IRS didn't give Intuit 5 or more days of notice in advance. This stopped Intuit from meeting the 5 days early expectations. If TurboTax is unable to deliver the refund 5 days early, your order will be canceled and you won't be charged the 5-Day Early fee. You will receive a follow-up email with a refund and timing update, and if any cancellation is applicable. 

I see. The wording is slightly different in the TurboTax Desktop version.   Go to Investment Income, then select Stocks, Crypto... There, you select the + Add investments box Skip import Select the Stock, Bonds...1099-B...box, Continue Input bank or brokerage, Continue Answer the, "Tell us about the sales..." questions, Continue Next choose either to enter Sales section totals or One by one, Continue In the, Now, enter one sales total, you can select either Short-term (Box C) of Long-term (Box F) (for noncovered) You can then go to Forms Mode to verify that the amounts are showing in their respective Box C or Box F

The workaround for 2025 (this is an issue for this year only) is to enter "None" for January 2024. TurboTax for unknown reasons will change that to "Self" and your return will be correct.    I urge you to check this before you file (especially if you can see the 8889 on the desktop product)

@jrenz12 wrote: I  already tried this. My product is showing but when I click on the download nothing happens   Clear cache and cookies on your web browser.  Or change your browser to one of these that you are not currently using, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge   I just went to that website and downloaded a file.  It loaded into my Download directory immediately.  

djsintuituid.  This worked for me in Edge browser. I also cleared cookies and cached images. Go to Settings \ Privacy, search, and services \ Clear browsing data \ Clear browsing data now. Check cookies and cached images, and click Clear Now. This ensures Edge doesn't try to use previously loaded information when TT tries to access the 1099s.