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.
My daughter died 18 mths ago aged 31 yrs. My daughter died 18 mths ago aged 31 yrs. She had a VP shunt inserted at 4 wks of age and had several revisions in her early years. Her last revision was at age 13. There had been no problems with the shunt up until 6 mths before she died.