# EBT Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Eligibility Estimator

> EBT Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Eligibility Estimator is a paid API for AI agents from energybilltoolkit.co.uk, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Estimates Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) eligibility and approximate credit amount based on earned income, filing status, and number of qualifying children

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://energybilltoolkit.co.uk/mcp-ebt/api/eitc/estimate
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ebt-earned-income-tax-credit-eitc-eligibility-estimator-2d5531bc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9UPZuMzf0yLMzcFxy1FRX

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ebt-earned-income-tax-credit-eitc-eligibility-estimator-2d5531bc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you check if I qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit? I'm filing as head of household with 2 qualifying children and my earned income this year was $28,500.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a fast, pay-per-use EITC eligibility screen without building or maintaining your own tax credit calculation logic. Ideal for financial counseling agents, tax preparation assistants, or social services tools that need to quickly assess whether a user qualifies for the Earned Income Tax Credit given their income and family situation. Best suited for single-record lookups rather than bulk batch processing.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required fields (earnedIncome, filingStatus) return validation errors
- Invalid filingStatus enum value causes request rejection
- Negative or implausibly large income values may produce unexpected results
- qualifyingChildren values that are non-integers or negative may cause errors
- Network or payment authorization failures return HTTP 402 or 5xx errors

## How this service works

Pay-per-use EBT screening endpoint

## Output

Returns an estimated EITC eligibility status and approximate credit amount based on the provided earned income, filing status, and number of qualifying children, allowing users to quickly assess whether they or their clients may qualify for this federal tax credit.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "earnedIncome": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Earned income (USD)"
  },
  "filingStatus": {
   "enum": [
    "single",
    "married_joint",
    "head_of_household",
    "qualifying_surviving_spouse",
    "married_separate"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "qualifyingChildren": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Number of qualifying children"
  }
 }
}
```

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