subject: An Internet Home Business for Economic Security [print this page] With residual income, you can create an even better level of economic security by ensuring that income will keep coming in even if you are incapacitated and unable to work. It will also continue coming in if you simply want to take a vacation or want to take a few extra days off every month. It can give business owners a layer of steady income that doesn't depend on the economy or on your own ability to work.