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You may need to pay taxes on your Social Security Disability Insurance benefits. This can happen if you receive other income such as dividends or tax-exempt interest, or if you have a spouse that has income that can places you above a certain threshold. Since Social Security Disability Insurance requires you to be disabled and have limited income to be eligible, you might not have other income to exceed this threshold. Therefore, you might not have to pay taxes on it.
To determine if you need to pay taxes on your SSDI will depend on your filing status and other souces of income. The IRS states that your Social Security Disability Insurance benefits may become taxable when one-half of your benefits, plus all other income, exceeds an income threshold based on your tax filing status:
The link below will give you further guidance on this topic:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p915.pdf
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