How can I avoid efile rejection on my joint return with my husband who died in 2020? I'm getting an error message that his SSN is frozen.

[LeslieO]

MY return filing joint with deceased spouse was rejected twice. I do not know who in t tax to tell but them when  efiling  after I entered my  AGI  they asked me for the pin used last year by primary tax filer. but they only had My first name as the only option for my pin and also my date of birth, my husband was the primary last year thus also this year but there was no option for his   pin  or date of birth as the primary.  T Tax needs to give an option for either taxpayer to use their pin and date birth.  So it looks like I ill be mailing it in. I also read you should put deceased next to the spouses name on the 1040 . Good luck . As if all the financial changes werent hard enough the taxes are a challenge. Then you can't even submit them HA>

[LeslieO]

its a glitch He was the primary last year and IRS expects his info but TTax only gives you option to put you as the primary. I got rejected 2x so will mail it in.

[LeslieO]

Its more than the AGI because and your spouse wound have the same AGI It is because the IRS asks for the last years Pin of the primary taxpayer and their date of birth, but the form developed by Tubo tax only gives you the option to put in the surviving spouses pin and DOB> But IRS is looking for the PRIMARY taxpayer's info and TTax provides no option in software to input this.   Can someone get to their IT and tell them.