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June 15, 2026
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Enhanced Senior Deduction Amount sch 1a issues

  • June 15, 2026
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I have a returning client, I've done her taxes for years and never had an issue with her taxes being accepted upon e-file. She is 69 yo, and has multiple businesses. I get her tax returns done and send them off and get a rejection notice. The error code says that the Primary Enhanced Senior Ded Amt has a value greater than zero, the primary must be at least 65. She's over 65, she's almost 70. How can I resolve this? I have verified her age/dob.

11 replies

Jim-from-Ohio
Intuit Community Champion
June 15, 2026

What is her AGI

sjrcpa
Level 15
June 15, 2026

And Filing Status

The more I know the more I don’t know.
BobKamman
Level 15
June 15, 2026

How did you verify her date of birth?  Do you have a copy of her birth certificate?  Is she collecting Social Security?  Paying Medicare premiums?  Anything unusual about how she obtained her SSN -- like, an immigrant later in life?  

IRS gets d.o.b. data from Social Security.  Both are known to make mistakes.  

BobKamman
Level 15
June 16, 2026

😥

BobKamman
Level 15
June 16, 2026

Honey they shrunk the text.

And now I  have no permissions to reply to their topics.

Intuit Community Champion
June 16, 2026

Enhanced Senior Deduction: All eligible individuals 65 and older can claim an extra $6,000 deduction, regardless of whether they choose to take the standard deduction or itemize. This phases out for singles with incomes over $75,000 and married joint filers over $150,000

Just-Lisa-Now-
Intuit Community Champion
June 16, 2026

Id file by paper and include the rejection message along with a birth certificate.
 

♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥Lisa♥¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪
BobKamman
Level 15
June 16, 2026

Apparently Social Security has enough accounts with an inaccurate date of birth, that they have a web page for making corrections to them. 

https://www.ssa.gov/personal-record/correct-date-birth

sjrcpa
Level 15
June 16, 2026

You got your rights back. 

The more I know the more I don’t know.
BobKamman
Level 15
June 16, 2026

I could always post to other questions, just not to the announcement that the Champions are coming back

 

IRonMaN
Level 15
June 17, 2026

“I could always post to other questions, just not to the announcement that the Champions are coming back”

 

I don’t think that they wanted to take a chance on any of us mucking up that announcement.

Slava Ukraini!