My EIC is about $1200 less than last year, but I only made $5000 more. Also, all the online calculators say it should be $981. TT is computing it at $786. Concerned.

[SweetieJean]

EIC is paid on bell curve. As your income  goes up, the EIC goes up, but then starts to come down. What is your fling status?

[SweetieJean]

For example, at the same income, the EIC for Single/HOH is less than that for MFJ.

[jtmomof2]

HOH

[SweetieJean · Accepted solution]

See the tables at the end of this publication. They are for 2016, but will show you how EIC works:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p596.pdf

[xmasbaby0]

The IRS does not even have the 2017 EIC amounts on the site yet. So how accurate is the online calculator that is being used?

[jtmomof2]

Thanks, SweetieJean. That helped tremendously.