I hope this helps someone as I've been trying to resolve this for weeks with no success. Since they've modified the direct connect to the EWC+ method and I have accounts with benefits, ml investments as well as BofA, I could get my BofA working pretty easily but not the ML stuff it hadn't been fixed in months. I tried creating a new account, deep repairing my files, removing download then trying to reaccess and each time, I'd try to set back up ML, which prompts you to login, and prompts you which accounts to setup, then going back into quicken after authorizing it would give me an error:
"Sorry, the sign in failed due to a time out or a connection error"
Here's how I fixed it.
Not using quicken, just a browser Revoke 3rd party access at benefits.ml.com as well as ml.com or at least check everything is revoked there even after disabling the online connection in quicken. It was very frustrating as I kept following the instructions given from support on disabling all your online content but i never went in the ml or benefits websites to revoke the third party access. Until you do that you'll constantly get a bounce trying to setup your quicken logins. Its hard to find in the ML site, you go to security center, then there are tabs at the top of the screen that pops ups for third party access. I nearly gave up on quicken completely but this finally fixed it and now all my accounts BofA, ML and benefits.ml are downloading again!