I only received unemployment compensation through the state in 2007. Does that qualify as earned income for an IRA?
"The answer is no," says IRA expert Ed Slott, author of Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map. Unemployment insurance doesn't count as earned income for IRA eligibility.
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