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.
A California waitress who inspired the iconic Rosie the Riveter poster died on Saturday at the age of 96. Naomi Parker Fraley, who was only recently identified as the real Rosie, passed away in Longview, Wash., the New York Times reported. Fraley, like many women during WWII, went to work after the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor.