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Income above which up to 85% of benefits can be taxable: married filing jointly

44000 USD/year

2026, from 2025-01-01 · verified 2026-10-31 against the official source · next expected change 2027-01-01

Generally, up to 50% of your benefits will be taxable. However, up to 85% of your benefits can be taxable if either of the following situations applies to you. The total of one-half of your benefits and all your other income is more than $34,000 ($44,000 if you are married filing jointly).

key: us/social-security-benefits/taxation-85-percent-threshold-married-joint
value: 44000 USD/year
period: 2026
effective: 2025-01-01 to date
source: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p915
verified: 2026-10-31 — fresh (6 days ago; next check by 2026-11-01)
next expected change: 2027-01-01 (annual: a fixed day each year)
source checked: 2026-11-02 (the newest day the automated check fetched the source page)
scope: Benefit rules read from ssa.gov in a browser (ssa.gov answers 403 to automated fetches); the taxation amounts are from IRS Publication 915 (2025), the latest edition. Keys ending -2027 hold SSA figures already published for 2027; unsuffixed keys hold the 2026 value.
hash: sha256:e24278b92cbac33380632979079e3533cb1de86f6c20dd2d3f63545c6e535afe
signature: EdDSA, key db-2026-10 — keys

As JSON

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