No, your income of 7,000 would not make you ineligible.
I would guess that you do not have a tax liability for the credit to be used against.
Look at your 1040 line 16, if that is zero, the credit is useless, so the program would say you don't qualify.
HERE is how to look at your 1040 using Online
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