What is the definition of earned income

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Origin of earned income

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby earned income

early wood, earmark, ear-minded, earmuff, earn, earned income, earned run, earned run average, earner, earnest, earnestly

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How to use earned income in a sentence

• Before 2021, you had to have at least some earned income to get the refundable portion of the child tax credit.

• SSI participants cannot make more than $65 in earned income and $20 in unearned income each month, which is the same amount the program allowed when it began nearly 50 years ago.

• The credit for qualifying children is fully refundable, which means that taxpayers can benefit even if they don’t have any earned income or don’t owe income taxes.

• That’s not to say that increasing the minimum wage and expanding the earned income, child and child-care tax credits shouldn’t be a top priority for a new Democratic president and Congress.

• The earned income tax credit program, a subsidy for people who don’t make enough to pay income taxes, could be expanded to make it worth it for more people to file a return.

• Henri Paul actually worked for the French Secret Service and he had €200,000 in his account when he only earned €30,000 a year.

• Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.

• Only one other Star Wars film has earned a PG-13 rating, the 2005 prequel Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

• Since then, the rising gap between the rich and middle- and lower-income families has risen to the fore.

• For the Brogpas, transforming into a tourist attraction may offer their community a way to generate much-needed income.

• Government grants amount to about two-thirds of the income, the balance being raised by public subscription and from fees.

• Oh, but surely if we have to call ourselves Wurzel-Flummery it would count as earned income.

• They are raised on the strictest scientific principles and yield me the greater part of my income.

• Nine-tenths of those who have a competence know what income they have, and are careful not to spend more.

• With his vast income, acquired from the spoils of nearly every country in Europe, he maintained his high rank in lordly fashion.

British Dictionary definitions for earned income

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012