In a move hailed as a victory for public servants across the nation, the Social Security Fairness Act is now the law. This landmark legislation eliminates the W ...
More than 3 million people are about to get a bump to their Social Security checks thanks to the Social Security Fairness Act, a new law that eliminates two previous rules that reduced retirees' ...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced that implementing the Social Security Fairness Act, which aims to ...
The Social Security Administration, in an update to its website on Friday, said the department does not currently have the ...
Though Congress acted on a bipartisan basis last year to pass legislation ending two controversial tax provisions that ...
(Photo illustration by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Together, the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset were responsible for significantly reducing Social Security ...
On January 5, 2025, Joe Biden signed a bill into law that raises Social Security benefits for millions of Americans. The increase applies to current and former public service workers, such as police ...
But their Social Security benefit was reduced by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), introduced in 1983. Benefits were significantly reduced if they worked fewer than 20 years for an ...
The average benefit increase will be about $360 per month. "With a full repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) now signed into law ...