<prompt> Human: My wife and I are married and we have one child. She is staying at home with him so her income is practically nil except she has one month last year of working and received prize money 1099 form . I work two jobs one full time and the other part-time. We were filing with Turbo Tax and Our joint income comes in 50 over the Earned Income Tax Credit. Is there anything that we can do short of fraud. I mean 50 bucks...  <response>: Its not like if you had 100 less income you would qualify for the full earned income tax credit. The whole credit is phased out over an income range. If you had 100 less income you would probably qualify for a 25 credit from the IEC. Its overall better for you to be earning more money than to be qualifying for this credit. 