Being "stuck" in the "errors" department cannot usually be fixed by a taxpayer advocate but you can try.
Unfortunately that department was forced to handle 50+ million returns that needed to be manually processed and they were not prepared to handle the volume returns so the time table for processing them is extremely long. On top of that the files are not being processed in a first in first out system ... instead they are being processed by the correction needed (easier ones first) and only after the original return has been processed. This delay is an unfortunate side affect of the late tax law changes and the understaffed, overtasked IRS is doing the best they can under difficult circumstances.
