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Your 401(k) contributions are reported on your form W-2 in box 12, code D. These contributions are not taxable and have already been deducted from your wages reported in box 1 of your W-2.   You do not need to enter these contributions anywhere else on your tax return.

I was having this problem. Called Merrill, they said it was TT issue. Called TT and they were very helpful. Offered several workarounds. In the end, she sent me an email that detailed several steps to try to overcome the glitch. I have the desktop version. If you make it to the "Lets get your forms screen" > go to your search bar and click on the sliders in the far left corner. "Local network" or  I slid mine off and back on.  it allowed me to go to the next screen and it showed all my accounts at merrill. If i only choose one download, it works. 

You will enter your Form 1099-G in the Wages and Income section of TurboTax, and then Other Common Income and then Other 1099-G Income. On the screen that says What Kind of Payment did you Receive, you will answer Agricultural Program Payment . On the Form 1099-G entry screen enter your agricultural payments in box 7. On another screen TurboTax will ask you if the income is for farm rental or just farm, pick the one that applies to you.   After you complete the Form 1099-G entry, go to the Self-employment income section in TurboTax, under Wages and Income and find your farm that TurboTax set up and update that section to enter your farm expenses.    

An LLC can be filed in a lot of different ways.  The easiest way for you to file it and get the credit for your loss is to file a schedule C for this year.  If you start making a profit at the business then it will be better to file as a partnership or an S-Corp or something.  But for this year just a sole-proprietorship.   Scroll down in the wages and income section to 'Business Items' and click 'start' next to 'Business Income and Expenses'.  Enter all of the information about your LLC here and then enter the expenses that you had for 2025.  You'll take that loss against all of your other income to reduce your tax bill for this year.

And just to be clear, by "... zeroed out the entire 8962" I mean that it sets the "tax family size" (line 1) to 0 and all of the other lines are blank except for line 30 which has the policy number, SSN, start month (1), end month (8) and premium, SLCSP, and PTC percentages (0.00) filled in.