To Nobodyandnothing: I have reported the jobs to Social Security. The dept. store cleaning job pays $10 a day/$300 a month, the other one about the same. So I'm making roughly $350 a month right now. When I talked to Social Security and explained the situation to them, they said that since I was not up to the limit (which is approximately $1000), I was in the clear. My monthly direct deposits continue to come.

I'm glad you mentioned about rent she pays us being taxable income. I didn't realize that. I'd better tell my husband, since she deals with him as far as the rent is concerned. She doesn't have a lease; she just moved in under a sort of informal agreement. It was my husband's intent that she would help me here by cleaning the house. But she doesn't do that because she's so busy with her other cleaning jobs. (She has about 6, all told, though some are only once or twice a week.) Since she's paying us very little (though she says she really intends to), there's not that much income to report!