I saw on a thread from last year that making the living person as the as the 1st (primary ) person on the tax return resulted in their Federal tax return being accepted right away. I gave this a try and it worked.
In the personal info section ( Windows Version for me ), I swapped the entries and made the living parent as the one listed first and my deceased parent as the second person. I then also had to go in and swap the entries relating to income etc. For instance, for the 1099s etc., I had to swap who they were belonged to . In the SSA-1099 section , I switched the positions of the taxpayer / spouse figures. Evidently TT does not relate the income documents by name or SSN, its purely positional ( taxpayer /spouse ) which makes you have to switch those since they were already entered . Lastly in the E-file identification section, I listed my living parent's Drivers license / ID info 1st and stated underneath that my deceased parent did not have an ID. I entered the correct AGI from the prior year . I did not enter 0. I E-filed again and Fed was accepted in less than an hour and State was accepted a few hours later. I hope this helps those that are as frustrated as I was. I tried many other options mentioned in the forums such as entering 0 for AGI, etc. That didn't seem to work for the case where a taxpayer has passed away .
