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Determining Taxable Amount. If your base income exceeds the limit for your filing group, you'll have to pay taxes on some of your Social Security benefits. If you're a single filer and your base income is between $25,000 and $34,000, you'll have to pay tax on up to 50 percent of your Social Security benefits.
As of 2017, the dependent must earn less than $4,050 in taxable income. The good news is that Social Security checks are normally excluded. Thus, if the disabled person is drawing Social Security disability checks, this income does not count toward the taxable income.