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I submitted total salaried earnings for the period claimed, as they asked for gross earnings/earned income. Earned income means the amount a person has earned. Although we pay some of our salary into health and 401Ks pre-tax, we still worked to earn that money. So it should be counted.apeterso925 wrote:I have been going under the assumption that my "past earnings" are my total salaried earnings for the period claimed, before tax. However, a fellow forum member interpreted past earnings as the total amount that is taxed.
For Americans, does that mean we can only include our income after paying for things like health insurance (which are deducted before tax)? What are other Americans submitting? Your total taxable earnings or only the earnings that were actually taxed?
My wage slips show both amounts, but of course my W2 will match the smaller taxed amount.
EdgeHillMole wrote:I submitted total salaried earnings for the period claimed, as they asked for gross earnings/earned income. Earned income means the amount a person has earned. Although we pay some of our salary into health and 401Ks pre-tax, we still worked to earn that money. So it should be counted.apeterso925 wrote:I have been going under the assumption that my "past earnings" are my total salaried earnings for the period claimed, before tax. However, a fellow forum member interpreted past earnings as the total amount that is taxed.
For Americans, does that mean we can only include our income after paying for things like health insurance (which are deducted before tax)? What are other Americans submitting? Your total taxable earnings or only the earnings that were actually taxed?
My wage slips show both amounts, but of course my W2 will match the smaller taxed amount.
Unearned income is a different matter entirely. If you also receive any unearned income directly from the company (Dividends, shares, stocks, allowances), you will want to carefully read page 23 of the HSMP guidance notes, since these are a bit trickier.
Approved and already living in the UK.apeterso925 wrote:Have you gotten approval yet or still waiting?
Yes, Balliol '01...my old e-mail ID obviously still comes in handy. Were you up?gordon wrote:And Ball1333 - of course getting into Oxford (Balliol?) was easier - they, at least, had a clear-cut idea of what they expected to find in the applications and how to evaluate the evidence. Unfortunately, I am not entirely confident that the same can always be said in this process.
Ah, so you are a spy, then? (inside joke)gordon wrote:I was up at Oxford (St Antony's 95).
A caveat: I should just reiterate that the details I gave were for an application that, on account of insufficient contract work evidence, ultimately failed (I made inferences based on the letter provided). While I did not want to overwhelm the caseworker with supporting evidence, it was clear that explicit explanations were needed to affirm that the evidence were, in fact, consistent with each other.
What was odd was that, in the application, I gave the FICA amount in the W2, but the letter referred to credit given for the gross earnings amount on the payslips (prior to any deductions). I suspect that there might be some variance between the caseworkers, but I wonder whether all US applications are handled by a sub-set of caseworkers.