I did everything but turn my computer upside down, inside out, but Turbotax was adamant that the only screen for Social Security it would like was the one where my wife selects if she lived abroad. Simple question, simple answer. But not for this. If there was some arcane way around the problem, I couldn't find it. If there were a simple solution I couldn't find it.
It's not as if I never used a computer program before in my life. I've moved through returns filed out by hand in the 1960's through some pretty sophisticated tax issues with may sources of information keyed into some tax program. I made my living creating, designing computer systems and directed such work by others, but a solution to this did not jump up and wave at me.
I cut my losses, just started again, finally did get a return I could file.
Thanks for taking the time to try to help me.
BTW TT also no longer provides for IRS form 8606, so one has to go to the IRS website. Talk about clunky software. Each field has to be keyed in, nothing is calculated for you (even though the form tells one what to do, where to get any input, and each calculation). Our taxpayer $ at work.
