SS is taxed if your earnings are over a certain amount.
I don’t know what that is though.
You’re taxed on anything over $25,000. Say you get SS and work a PT job and have a pension. The way it works is you take one-half of what you receive from SS and add in anything else. If the total comes to under $25,000 (and you’re single) you pay no tax. Anything over that you’re taxed. But a lot of that goes to the side when you add in your standard deductions.