# Not Required to File? File Anyway to Collect the Earned Income Tax Credit

- Source: Money Crashers
- Published: 2026-10-17T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: Markets
- Original: https://www.moneycrashers.com/eitc-file-tax-return/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/not-required-to-file-file-anyway-to-collect-the-earned-income-tax-cred-2d3ce2/

About one in five people who qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) don’t claim it, by the IRS’s estimate. Many of them skip the return, because their pay was too low to require one and filing seemed pointless.... Source

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