The SSI 'marriage penalty' can reduce or eliminate benefits for recipients who marry, threatening their financial and ...

The SSI marriage penalty can cost couples up to $484 a month, forcing many to choose between love and financial security.

this is commonly referred to as the marriage tax penalty. Similar to prior tax reforms, the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) 1 preserved the penalty for marriage, reducing some components ...

I owe $21,978. The married couple owes $17,688. Wait, there's still no "marriage penalty" - the couple is paying less! ($4,290 less) Let's try a million dollars. I pay $328,597. A married couple ...

THE PRESIDENT was right to veto the marriage penalty legislation Congress sent to him, but not for the reasons he stated. The chief shortcomings of the bill are not that it is too expensive or ...

Marriage penalties and bonuses occur because income taxes for married couples generally are based on the combined income of a couple, not on the incomes of each spouse individually. Under a ...

An NPR investigation of SSI — a program run by the Social Security Administration — found that many disabled people get caught by this "marriage penalty," a left-over rule from decades ago ...

But because they both receive Supplemental Security Income — commonly referred to as SSI — they’ll lose about $300 in combined income monthly if they get married due to the resource limits ...

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they can get hit with either a “marriage penalty” or a “marriage bonus,” meaning they pay more or less in taxes as a married couple than they would as two singles. Penalties are more ...

Expect to hear a lot over the next couple of weeks about the "marriage penalty," that quirk of the tax code that forces two-income married couples to pay more taxes than singles who live together.