Earned Income

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
EI
Pronunciation
/ərnd ˈɪnˌkəm/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. Mr Romney said he had also earned income from giving speeches, but not very much.
  2. Twelve million families with twenty-four million children will benefit from extensions of the Earned Income(EI) Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.
  3. Realized and earned income
  4. The earned income tax credit ( EITC ) provides a subsidy to the wages of qualified low-income individuals.
  5. Higher spending was underpinned by one-off increases in social security payments and decreases in personal taxes that boosted disposable income even as earned income fell as a result of huge job losses.

Other meanings of EI