Couples would see the means test start to reduce benefi ts if they had non -Social Security income. equal to $110,000, and they would receive no benefits if their income was over $165,000. In the. case of both individuals and couples, the decision would be based on their annual tax return.
oxen - domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; so many head of cattle; wait till the cows come home; seven thin and ill-favored kine- Bible; a team of oxen. Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine. calf - young of domestic cattle.
An ox, to early American farmers who used the beast, was a mature castrated male belonging to the domestic cattle family, or genus Bos, most likely trained (like draft horses, some never got trained) to work, and at the end of its life inevitably used for meat.