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You are allowed to subtract up to $10,000 in contributions if you are single and $20,000 if you are married filing a joint return for contributions you made to the “Bright Start” program, the "College Illinois" Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund, or the "Bright Directions" program during the tax year. The total subtraction for contributions made to both college savings plans may not exceed $10,000 for single filers and $20,000 for joint filers, even if you contributed more. Contributions to any other IRC Section 529 programs may not be deducted.   When you go through the IL return, on the page titled Here's the income that Illinois handles differently, scroll down to Education.   Expand that section and choose START next to College savings and prepaid tuition plan contributions.

It depends on what kind of income it is. If you'll be getting a tax slip, then you'll report the income in whatever year the tax slip is for.    If it's self-employment income, generally you are to report income in the fiscal period you earn it, no matter when you receive it. So, if you invoiced a client in 2025 but they paid you in 2026, it would go on your 2025 return. But if you billed them in 2026, then it would go your 2026 return.

You would only enter the Form 1095-A on your tax return if your name was in box 4 (recipient) or your spouse's name was in box 7(recipient's spouse's name) and you are filing jointly with your spouse. If your child has a form with their name on it, that would not be entered on your tax return. It would be entered on the child's tax return if they were required to file one. 

@dmertz wrote: "If the estate pays any tax due, it can distribute its assets (property and cash) tax free."   Only if the the estate does not distribute the income in the same estate income tax year.  Correct, and that needs to be monitored closely so as not to create an unnecessary tax liability.

The Form 1040-X for amending a 2025 federal tax return is estimated to be available in TurboTax on 03/04/2026   Forms and schedules availability website - https://form-status.app.intuit.com/tax-forms-availability/formsavailability?albRedirect=true&product...   NOTE - Not until the IRS updates the Form 1040-X instructions for tax year 2025 can TurboTax provide a 2025 Form 1040-X. Current IRS Form 1040-X instructions are for tax year 2024 - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040x.pdf IRS Draft Form 1040--X instructions for tax year 2025 - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/i1040gi--dft.pdf

Yes, you can claim mileage as medical expenses.   To learn more about what travel expenses you can claim as medical expenses, please read this article: Medical Expenses 2025   The process to enter medical expenses in TurboTax Online and TurboTax Desktop is different. You can review this article to follow the steps to enter your medical expenses.   Thank you for choosing TurboTax.

I think I found the issue.  The unearned income is actually over $2700.  From the step-step process, I did not see the "total capital gain distribution", I only see the investment interest (1099-INT) and investment divident (1099-DIV).  With the addition of the"total capital gain distribution", the unearned income is just over $2700.

I need to say sorry to anyone following this thread! The item was reported on 1099-B AND was included in Forms! What threw me was that it showed up in Interest (plus I have extremely bad eyesight)! For the record it was on 1099-B as line 1f accrued market disc (D). TT put it into the Capital Asset Sales Worksheet, into the Brokerage Statement. Code D - Short term sales with cost basis reported to IRS. It was listed in Forms as a Capital Asset sale, not as an interest. It also appears on Form 8949 "Sales and other dispositions of Capital Assets".  So - good old TT saved my bacon again! My thanks to the Community as well.

The program should be treating the figure as a negative so ensure you're inputting the figure(s) correctly.    You can contact Support if you can't resolve this issue; this should be a deduction from your other income assuming you have no other capital gains (also capital gain distributions).