The Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), enacted on January 5, 2025, marks a significant shift in Social Security benefits, ...

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To understand what WEP and GPO are and why they exist, it’s important to know that the Social Security Act of 1935 did not include federal, state and local public-sector employees.

Affecting a small percentage of Social Security beneficiaries, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) is a modified benefit formula that can reduce the size of your Social Security retirement or ...

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 intended ...

The repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) marks a significant shift in Social Security benefits for many retirees. With over $7.5 billion in retroactive payments already distributed ...

Some 2.8 million Americans may be eligible to receive an increase in their monthly Social Security benefits. Are you one of ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision is designed to prevent people who didn't pay Social Security tax on the majority of their income from receiving disproportionately high Social Security payments ...

Do you know what the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) is and how it might affect you, if it affects you? Only about 2.5 percent of people who receive Social Security are impacted by WEP.

Letters to the Editor; Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset should be retained. Published: ; Apr. 08, 2023, 4:29 p.m.

Two competing proposals in Congress address Social Security provisions—the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)—that affect workers who have worked in ...