Beneficiaries affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, which reduced benefits to certain public employees, saw higher monthly benefit amounts and a one ...

Millions of Social Security beneficiaries in the U.S. are set to receive a financial boost as a new law abolishes two ...

The SSA has implemented the Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), which is a law that repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision ... target of 50,000 — a 7,000 reduction to its workforce.

Those workers had previously seen their benefits reduced or eliminated due to the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, which have been nixed with the new law. In the first ...

a law that ended the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset rules, both of which reduced benefits for retirees who received certain public pensions. More than 3 million ...

Only those whose payments were previously reduced by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) are eligible for an increase. Among the most affected are ...