Making Work Pay Credit 2010

[Burke]

I have an 81 year old client who works a part-time job and qualifies for the MWP. She has no withholding and no income tax liability. She also qualified last year, but the MWP would have been reduced in 2009 by the $250 SS benefit paid. As far as I can determine, no $250 benefit was paid to SS recipients in 2010. So she could qualify this year, correct? I cannot get any info from the IRS ERP site, since she hasn't filed a tax return in years.

[solomon]

I have an 81 year old client who works a part-time job and qualifies for the MWP. She has no withholding and no income tax liability. She also qualified last year, but the MWP would have been reduced in 2009 by the $250 SS benefit paid. As far as I can determine, no $250 benefit was paid to SS recipients in 2010. So she could qualify this year, correct? I cannot get any info from the IRS ERP site, since she hasn't filed a tax return in years.

I agree you are correct.

[Burke]

Thanks. I am going to file for it. I did find a statement that the $250 SS payment should have been made in 2010 only to those eligible persons who did not receive it in 2009 for some reason.