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If you are age 65 or older and meet the requirement, the additional deduction is automatically added on your federal tax return.   Standard deductions for 2025 Single - $15.750 add $2,000 if age 65 or older Married Filing Separately - $15,750 add $1,600 if age 65 or older Married Filing Jointly - $31,500 add $1,600 for each spouse age 65 or older Head of Household - $23,625 add $2,000 if age 65 or older   New Bonus Standard Deduction (OBBB): An additional $6,000 deduction for taxpayers 65 and older. This is per eligible individual, meaning a married couple both over 65 could get $12,000. Important: This bonus deduction is temporary, lasting from 2025 through 2028. Income limitations: It phases out for taxpayers with modified adjusted gross income over $75,000 for single filers and $150,000 for joint filers. The amount is calculated on Schedule 1-A, Part V, with that amount flowing to Form 1040 Line 13b Look at your Form 1040 - You can view your Form 1040 plus Schedules 1, 2 and 3 at any time using the online editions. Click on Tax Tools on the left side of the online program screen. Click on Tools. Click on View Tax Summary. Click on Preview my 1040 on the left side of the screen.

To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/ Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)   If you used the desktop CD/Download editions installed on your computer, the only copy of your tax data file and any PDF's will be on the computer where the return was created.  TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.   Go to this IRS website for free transcripts of a federal tax return - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript   For a fee of $30 you can get a complete federal tax return from the IRS by completing Form 4506 - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf

The amendment form 1040X will only be available on TurboTax after 2/19/2026.   As you have already filed, please wait to see if your return is accepted or rejected. If rejected, you may correct and resubmit. If it is accepted, you need to file an amended return.   If you are expecting a refund, we recommend that you wait to amend until after the IRS has processed your original return and you have received your refund.   To amend your tax return, please read this TurboTax article.     

All 2025 W-2's have to be entered on only ONE tax return.  If you have filed the 2025 tax return and have another W-2 to add, you will have to amend the tax return that you filed.   You will have to wait for the IRS to either Accept or Reject your filed federal tax return. If the return is rejected you can make the necessary changes and e-file again. If the return is accepted you will have to amend your original tax return. An amended return, Form 1040-X, can only be printed and mailed to the IRS if the original tax return was not e-filed. The IRS will take up to 20 weeks or longer to process an amended tax return. Before starting to amend the tax return, wait for the tax refund to be received or the taxes due to be paid and processed by the IRS. See this TurboTax support FAQ for amending a current year tax return - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/amend-federal-tax-return-current-year/L7eS6o1qh_US_en_US?uid=lfunevhk

If you have already filed the tax return, the refund advance is no longer available.   See this for the refund advance - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/offer-details-disclosures-refund-advance-program/L4ljXp6TI_US_en_US

Any of the TurboTax desktop editions can be used for your scenario as they include the same forms, schedules and worksheets.  More help and guidance is given with the higher editions.   Go to this TurboTax website to purchase and download one of the 2025 desktop editions - https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/cd-download/

The Form 1040-X for amending a 2025 federal tax return is estimated to be available in TurboTax on 02/19/2026   An amended return, Form 1040-X, can only be printed and mailed to the IRS if the original tax return was not e-filed. The IRS will take up to 20 weeks or longer to process an amended tax return. Before starting to amend the tax return, wait for the tax refund to be received or the taxes due to be paid and processed by the IRS. See this TurboTax support FAQ for amending a current year tax return - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/amend-federal-tax-return-current-year/L7eS6o1qh_US_en_US?uid=lfunevhk

Supposedly February 18 or 19, at which time TurboTax will open up the amending process.  In the meantime, do not make any changes in your return.  You have to start off with the original return as it was filed.  Also, if you are expecting a Federal refund, you should wait on it to arrive first before amending.

I'll assume you mean a Federal refund.   No one in this user community forum can know anything specific about your refund, but we can tell you some things in general.       First, where did you get that date?   If it was provided by TurboTax soon after you filed, that is just an estimate based on common processing times at the IRS,   Most people who efile and choose direct deposit get their refunds within 21 days.   For some people processing can take longer.   Or was the date provided to you by the IRS at the "Where's My Refund" tool?   Has the IRS approved your refund, sent it, and gave you an expected deposit date? https://www.irs.gov/wheres-my-refund If so, the IRS also says it can take up to 5 days due to variations in bank processing times.   Also if you had any fees that you paid out of your refund, the IRS sends it first to a third-party bank to take out the fees.   Then that third-party bank sends it to you in a second direct deposit.  If you used that option, and if the IRS has actually sent the funds, we can tell you how to check on it at the company that handles that--SBTPG.    If you did not choose that option, then this paragraph does not apply to you.   Also be aware that if you have EIC or ACTC tax credits in your return, the IRS cannot release those refunds until after February 15 due to the PATH Act.   So folks who have those types of credits in their returns may not see their refunds until late February or early March.  

You will have to contact TurboTax support for assistance with this problem. Use the key words Billing Issue See this TurboTax support FAQ for contacting support - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/turbotax-phone-number/L0Od33nMQ_US_en_US?uid=lfgviwbm

If the IRS website for the status of a tax refund indicates that the tax refund was Sent, then it may take up to 5 business days to be available in your bank account.   Only the IRS and your State control when and if a Federal or State tax refund is Approved and Issued.   Once a tax return has been Accepted by the IRS or a State, TurboTax receives no further information concerning the tax return or the status of any tax refund.   If accepted by the IRS use the federal tax refund website to check the refund status - https://www.irs.gov/refunds