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.
Mary Jo was shot and severely wounded by Buttafuocoâs lover, 17-year-old Amy Fisher, in 1992. Joey Buttafuoco says he was moved to spill his guts after a near-death intestinal incident that left him âseptic.â. The former Long Island lothario, whose torrid affair with Amy Fisher made him a household name in 1992, claims a near-fatal case of diverticulitis last December inspired him to break his 20-year silence.