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Thank you. I actually did read that publication a while back. The thing is: what constitutes earnings? We have capital gains from a land contract on selling some acreage. We have modest income from our farm and a small business, with quite a lot of depreciation yet to use, so that makes it even more modest. We have always filed jointly at 50% each, as we work together at everything. Now I am able to get Medicare, so just have a supplemental at a couple hundred a month. She pays 1100/mo for insurance. Our gains and interest would put us over the "earnings" cap, but we'd be under it with just the net on farm & business income, especially if her earnings half was then reduced by the thousands in insurance.