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I am having the same issue. I'm a US citizen and my income sources have nothing to do with Canada.  I have deleted the form, but Turbo Tax still takes me back thru the interview process to the Canadian Pension page.  Turbo Tax - please fix.

Looks like you missed a digit in box 3 for SS Wages  or put the decimal point in the wrong place.     $1,653.04 in box 4 means your wages were 26,661.94 in box 3.  With all those 6s you may have missed one.  

MY DEPENDENT HAD A JOB If your dependent has a W-2 for his after-school job, summer job, etc. you do not include the information on your own return. You can still claim your child as a dependent on your own return.  He/she can file his own return for a refund of some of his withheld wages from boxes 2 or 17 (he won’t get back anything for Social Security or Medicare), but MUST indicate on it that he can be claimed as a dependent on someone else’s return.  (Supervise this closely or prepare it for him!) If your dependent’s earnings were over $400 and were reported on a 1099Misc or 1099NEC then he must file a return and pay self-employment tax for Social Security and Medicare.     You might also want to use free software from the IRS Free File versions: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/

No you cannot pay TurboTax fees from a state refund.   If you did not choose to pay your fees from the federal refund, you must have already paid for federal using a credit or debit card, and you will also need to pay for filing the state using a credit or debit card.

@BB444 wrote: I am also getting the same message. I have checked and re calculated my numbers multiple times and the message is still coming up.  Delete the w-2 and re-enter.  Make sure the amount in box 6 is 1.45% or less of the amount in box 5.

I did some further research and found that you do not have to enter / report 1099-Q if your total qualified expenses for that year cover the amounts you withdrew from your 529 plan.  So if this is the case, you can just delete your entry of the 1099-Q to avoid dealing with TT half-*** ability to support this feature.  Here is a quote from one financial website "If your withdrawals did not exceed your qualified expenses for the year, the 529 plan distributions are income tax free. If this is the case, the 1099-Q can just be kept with your other important tax documents.".  Definitely do your own research to confirm.

Social Security Tax is found by multiplying an employee's gross taxable wages by 6.2%.  When I put my W-2 in the system the Turbotax calculation comes out incorrect (see screenshot below). When skipping this screen, I found other areas of the Turbotax system are calculating incorrectly as well.