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Mismatch on ITR Portal: Meal Allowance (₹26,400) under Sec 10 missing from drop-down menu

Hi all, need some help with a filing mismatch.My employer gave me a meal card, and on my Form 16 Part B, they claimed the ₹26,400 exemption under Section 10 (listed near the bottom of the Sec 10 block).When I go to the e-filing portal to fill out Schedule Salary:There is no drop-down option under Section 10 for "Meal Allowance" or "Any Other Allowance" anymore.My Section 17(2) field is exactly ₹xxxxx (matching my Form 12BA for stock options/provident fund), so the meal allowance isn't mixed into perquisites.Because the portal isn't picking up the Section 10 exemption, my portal's calculated net salary is exactly ₹26,400 higher than my physical Form 16.For those who faced this layout update this year, did you manually subtract the ₹26,400 from the Section 17(1) Gross Salary line item, or is there another place to declare it? (Filing under Old Regime).

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u/One-Difference-4662 — 22 hours ago