After you reach minimum retirement age, IRS considers the payments your pension and not earned income. Benefits such as Social Security Disability Insurance, SSI, or military disability pensions are not considered earned income and cannot be used to claim the EITC. You may qualify for the credit only if you,or your spouse, if filing a joint return, have other earned income.
Poignant: The couple have named the girl after Maya's later mother Minnie Riperton, who died aged 31, pictured here in 1978 a year before her death with her daughter Maya, son Marc and husband Richard.
1 Jeanette Nolan, who began her film career 50 years ago as Lady Macbeth opposite Orson Welles and is now being seen as the mother of the character played by Robert Redford in ''The Horse Whisperer,'' died on June 5 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Miss Nolan, who lived in Hollywood, was 86. She had suffered a stroke a week earlier, said her daughter, Holly Wright of Charlottesville, Va., and Manhattan. Miss Nolan's 70-year career in acting also included roles in theater, radio and television.