Retirement tax questions

@chobson5116 

You are answering a different question than was asked.  For purposes of determining how much Social Security benefits are taxable, the IRS considers all the recipient’s taxable income, there is no exclusion for unemployment compensation.

 

For purposes of determining if a retiree’s future benefits will be reduced because they earned too much income during retirement, unemployment compensation does not count as earned income. But that is not the question that was asked.