Michigan qualified public safety pension

Make sure that you've correctly input your pension exclusion type.  To do this in TurboTax Online: 

1. Open TurboTax Online
2. Select  Tax Home in the left pane
3. On the  Hi, let's keep working on your taxes! screen, select the dropdown on the right side of the State Taxes box, then select Start, Continue, or Review/Edit
4. In the left pane, select Prepare State
5. Proceed through the screens until you come to the Status of your state returns screen
6. Select  Start, Continue or Edit to the right of Michigan.  If no state is shown, select + Add another state to add Michigan
7. Proceed through the state screens until you get to the Here's the income that Michigan handles differently screen.      Select Start or Revisit to the right of Retirement Income and Pension Deduction
8. Pay attention on the Retirement Income and Pension Summary screen.  It looks like this:

You can see, under TYPE, what code you entered when you input your retirement income.

Then, below that, you can see a guide showing what each retirement type is, and what type of exclusion it qualifies for.

If the code for the retirement income you've entered doesn't match the exclusion that you're entitled to, select Edit next to the relevant income source and make any adjustments necessary.

There must be glitch in the interview process reverting back to unchecked in the yes/no question under the federal where it asks you if the pension is from public safety.

I solved the problem when in the Michigan section of TT by leaving easy step, opening the MI 4884 form, picking the quick view of the pension work sheet, and THERE making sure the public safety box is marked. It then computed the proper credit of MI taxes paid on my pension.

I have followed these directions and ensured that everything was selected correctly and still not calculating my Michigan tax correctly.  I did notice that when selecting Yes to indicate this money came from employment as a public safety officer it will not save this selection.  Additionally the section asking if "Did you or the Pension Administrator take out money from _______ pension to pay for health insurance?"  I selected yes and entered the amount. The amount is saved but the answer changes to to "No, money wasn't taken out to pay for health insurance.  I have changed multiple times and saved the file, but these responses change back to the incorrect selection.