Edit** Please explain to me like Im a child. And please try to answer my specific concerns, not give me generalized fact; it starts to become too complicated when I try to apply general facts to my very specific situation. I am disabled and doing my best. Please keep this is mind when responding. I am not cognitively able to process complex statements.
Im sorry, Im so confused and can hardly understand half the things Im reading. My partner and I want to get married. We are confused about what tax deductions we would qualify for if any. Our combined income after marriage would be probably just a little under 100k annually. My part of that is SSDI, about 14.6k.
If I understand correctly, that now means up to 85% of my SSDI becomes taxable?? So about 12.4k is taxable, I'd assume in the tax bracket we'd belong to, which would be 22%? So my spouse is just expected to cover an additional 2k on my behalf? Because where am I supposed to be getting 2k from?? I have to give up over 2 months of my scraps to come up with that, leaving my partner to cover all of our expenses for 2 months alone. This seems so backwards.
It seems like we wouldnt qualify for the elderly/disabled deduction? I dont really understand. I see some articles say one spouse can qualify while the other doesnt, but that doesnt make sense if the income is joint.
Because our combined income clearly isnt poverty, despite mine surely being, am i to assume we wouldnt qualify for ANY kind of useful deductions?? That seems so sad. I dont want to have to rely on my spouse to pay my newly acquired taxes. He does make a decent amount, but he also has bills of his own, college loans to pay off, dreams he'd like to achieve some day. It just doesnt seem fair to him, especially when he pays for the majority of things as is, considering im not nearly as financially nor physically able to.
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. Im so stressed. I was so happy to marry my partner and now it seems like its just going to be a weight on his life.
