Why thank you @MarilynG1 for your incredibly fast reply. That's a great help.
Unfortunate to see I'll be responsible to file another "final" tax return again next year to show that incorrectly assigned 1099-INT income and then deduct it by documenting that it went to a beneficiary who is responsible.
Just might get me to go back and look through this year's filing and perhaps include all the accrued savings bond interest up to the date of death since I had lots of deductions last year that I no longer have in future filings.
Well, I'm not done giving up some chance that I'll ever get through to someone at TreasuryDirect who should see that a POD beneficiary of an electronically held savings bond should be the owner and responsible from the date of death and not months later when TreasuryDirect arbitrarily gets around to reissuing the bond in the beneficiary's name. Advantage paper savings bond owners who wouldn't have this problem. They could have gone to a bank and cashed the matured bond and received the 1099-INT as beneficiary.
Thank you again for taking the time to help me understand and sharing that link to more information. Very helpful.
