As a retired Social Security Administration employee who is currently adversely impacted by Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), I am in agreement with Brenton Smith’s ...

The agreement to invoke cloture was on the motion to proceed to H.R. 82. (a bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination ...

T he Social Security Administration (SSA) works closely with the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) to adjust payments for beneficiaries receiving pensions without having contributed through ...

Millions of seniors are getting a welcome windfall. And it’s about time. On Jan. 5, Congress ended two provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO ...

Eliminating the windfall elimination provision would boost benefits for about 2 million individuals and cost about $88 billion through fiscal 2032, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Biden signs windfall elimination provision repeal into law The Social Security Fairness Act ends both the WEP and the government pension offset, increasing the Social Security checks for more than ...

Over 2.8 million Social Security beneficiaries impacted by two big obstacles — the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) - will soon have their Medicare ...

And that’s what the windfall elimination provision does. When that WEP formula is applied to my Social Security computation, it gives me the roughly 40% return rate rather than the 90% rate ...

A new law will increase Social Security benefits for 3.2 million people by eliminating limits under the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset.

Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) The WEP, enacted in 1983, was a reform that was intended to even the Social Security playing field. In 2024, it was repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act.

The payments are a result of the passage of Social Security Fairness Act that repealed the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset.

He’s said repeatedly that lawmakers should address the windfall elimination provision — which is cheaper to fix and impacts more people — and could then work to apply a similar approach to ...