Key Points ・The Senate student loan bill removes language that allowed married borrowers to exclude a spouse’s income from ...

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

That includes taxes, and more specifically, a potential for a marriage tax penalty. This means that as a married couple you end up paying more taxes than you would if you filed separately.

The U.S. federal tax system has featured some form of higher income taxes for dual-earner married couples than for two unmarried persons since 1913; this is commonly referred to as the marriage tax ...

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 ...

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 ...

It could happen. No, I’m not talking about flowers or candy. I’m talking about getting rid of the “marriage penalty” that’s built into one of our biggest welfare programs. That program ...

This phenomenon is known as the marriage penalty, and it most often happens when the two spouses each have similar and fairly high amounts of income. However, as you'll see, there are some ...

Senators opposed to the bill say it also gives a tax cut to couples who don't pay the so-called marriage penalty, but in fact pay less filing jointly than they would singly.

For many years, Congress has passed income tax laws designed to mitigate the so-called “marriage penalty.” The marriage penalty occurs when a married couple with similar incomes incurs a higher tax ...

Generally speaking, when US tax filers of any race get married, they can get hit with either a “marriage penalty” or a “marriage bonus,” meaning they pay more or less in taxes as a married ...