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Deductions & credits
Unemployment doesn't count as earned income but it is part of your AGI. And both your earned income AND AGI have to be under the max.
EIC Qualifications
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/credits-and-deductions/help/what-are-the-qualifications-for-the-ea...
IRS Pub 596
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p596
You might be able to use the lookback rule to use your 2019 income.
The special lookback rule will allow lower income individuals to use their earned income from 2019 to determine their Earned Income Tax Credit and the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit in 2020 and 2021.
How to use the Lookback provision
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/earned-income-credit/help/how-do-i-use-the-lookback-provision-to-m...
‎February 8, 2022
8:26 AM