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You can use the steps below to enter your self employment income and expenses.   Click Search in the upper right and type Schedule Click, Jump to On the Self employment Income and Expenses', click the arrow. Select Edit or Start beside your business and then scroll to Business Income and select 'Other Income' (cash, etc.). For more information, see, How do I report income from self-employment? 

What are the codes in box 7?  You may be misinformed about what you invested in. A normal Medicare Supplement policy would not issue a 1099-R,  but some sort of annuity linked to Medicare would.     

 Just enter the total as Other self employment income or as Cash or General income. You don't need to enter each 1099NEC or 1099K. You can enter all your income as Cash. Only the total goes to schedule C.   How to enter income from Self Employment https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/self-employed/help/how-do-i-report-income-from-self-employment/00/26653  

No, the two W-2 forms have different employer names. One W-2 only shows the regular pay, while the other only shows the overtime pay. The overtime pay only comes from the second employer, so Box 1 in that W-2 only includes overtime pay. Therefore, Box 14 QOC amount is almost equal to Box 1 (with some offset for rate adjustment). But TurboTax thinks that Box 14 QOC item cannot be greater than one-third of Box 1- Box 7. So it doesn't let me continue E-File.

@AmyC  all true AS LONG AS the scholarships are "unrestricted" in their use.      Restricted scholarships MUST BE applied to QEE before determining if there is QEE remaining to create AOTC on the parent's tax return.    Unrestricted scholarships CAN BE applied to QEE (and to create the AOTC, don't apply it, but rather use up to $4000 of QEE on the parent's tax return to create AOTC as you explain).   for example, if the QEE is $15,000 and there is $15,000 of scholarships that are all restricted in their use to tuition, then the $15,000 need to be netted against each other.  Then, there is no QEE remaining and therefore no AOTC opportunity.     

If you reported your direct rollover by entering Form 1099-R, TurboTax would not be saying you have an excess contribution.  In order for TurboTax to indicate you have an excess contribution is for you to have entered an IRA contribution.  Even if the rollover was not entered correctly, it would not show as a "contribution".  Navigate to "Deductions & Credits" >> " Traditional and Roth IRA Contributions" and review that section.  If you did not make an IRA contribution and there is a Traditional IRA contribution in the program, you need to delete it.     

@phantom-kitty-mny wrote:  It said my refund would be here today and it isn’t. I was told it would in today and it wasn’t and no one has been able to help me. Told by whom?    What is displayed at the IRS "Where's My Refund" tool? https://www.irs.gov/refunds What message is shown there?   Also, did you choose any option that uses a third-party bank to first receive the refund, such as the "pay fees out of refund", or "Up to 5 days earlier" offer, or Refund Advance?

line 2a should be what's on the actual form there is a section later on that asks the amount of the distribution (line 1) that is the RMD, This must be entered, Later it asks about the amount of the QCD made which can not exceed the RMD amount you entered. .     

Yes.  How do I enter my overtime pay in TurboTax?   Federal tax laws now let you deduct overtime pay. The overtime premium—the extra you earn above your regular rate—is now tax-deductible for some taxpayers. For example, if you earn $20 per hour, your overtime rate is $30. The $10 difference is the overtime premium. With tax law changes for 2025–2028, you don't have to pay federal income tax on that extra $10.     You can deduct up to $12,500 per year ($25,000 if Married Filing Jointly).