PYEI stands for Prior Year Earned Income.
You may elect to use your 2019 earned income to figure your EIC if your 2019 earned income is more than your 2020 earned income.
If you make the election to use your 2019 earned income to figure your EIC, enter “PYEI” and the amount of your earned income on the dotted line next to line 27.
For additional information, please refer to IRS Publication 596
Your return is showing prior year earned income was $0. If that is not correct and you have a copy of your last year return in order to get the correct amount to use, then go to the earned inome credit setion of the return and enter the correct prior year earned income.
If you do not have any income on the current year return, you cannot e-file it.
