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A Retiree With the Average $2,081 Check Needs Just $12,514 in Other Income Before the IRS Starts Taxing Social Security. That Line Hasn’t Moved Since 1984.

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The IRS still uses the same dollar thresholds it wrote in 1984 to decide whether your Social Security gets taxed, and every COLA increase since then has quietly pushed more ordinary retirees across a line that was never meant for them.