The Windfall Elimination Provision reduced benefits for certain workers, but its repeal by the Social Security Fairness Act could change how you plan for retirement.

Tucked deep inside the 267-page 2025 Medicare Trustees report is a projection that the standard monthly Medicare Part B ...

Both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) were repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act. This affected Social Security’s costs at a time when the ...

Furthermore, this is a 4.5% increase in the average benefit since the end of 2024, significantly more than the 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, that was enacted for 2025. So, where did the ...

Why has the average Social Security benefit increased so much? As mentioned, the average retired worker's benefit has increased by 4.5% in May 2025 compared with the same month in 2024. Of course ...

Answer : Yes, problems with Medicare premiums, including double-billing, may be related to how payments are processed now that you are no longer penalized by the Windfall Elimination Provision or ...

Question: Regarding the Social Security Fairness Act, I am getting my money but now there’s a problem with my Medicare premiums. Is anyone else having these problems? Are they related?

Earlier this year, Biden signed a bill that boosted Social Security payments for nearly 3 million people. Here’s an update on the expanded benefits.

The Brief Earlier this year, the Social Security Fairness Act boosted Social Security payments for nearly 3 million people. SSA says benefits have been expanded for about 91% of those eligible ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, which was signed into law in January, eliminated two provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision, or WEP, and the Government Pension Offset, or GPO — that ...