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.
Rue McClanahan passed away in 2010 at age 76 from a stroke. Bea Arthur died from cancer in 2009 at age 86, and Estelle Getty, who suffered from Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disease, died in 2008 at age 84. Surviving Golden Girls star Betty White, 91, is as busy as ever. She currently stars on the hit comedy series, Hot in Cleveland.