On January 5, 2025, the Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law, marking a major reform for public sector workers, including firefighters, police officers and teachers. This law eliminates ...

Learn how the Social Security Fairness Act may increase your retirement benefits by eliminating the Windfall Elimination ...

Though Congress acted on a bipartisan basis last year to pass legislation ending two controversial tax provisions that ...

Over three million retirees who worked in the public sector, or are entitled to spousal or surviving spousal benefits, will ...

Callers to the SSA hear a message about the Social Security Fairness Act, intended to reduce long and frustrating wait times ...

While Americans who have worked full-time and paid into the Social Security system for at least ten years are eligible for ...

It took 40 years for Congress to pass a law to boost Social Security for public workers. Now, SSA says they must wait at ...

The new law affects around 3 million workers, including teachers, firefighters, and police officers, by ending the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO).

The Social Security Fairness Act will boost benefits for 3.2M public workers once the agency can plow past multiple ...

The Social Security Fairness Act increased benefits to millions more retirees, including some who never claimed them.

To estimate how much the back payments and 2025 increases will be, use the SSA tool that was previously available to calculate pension reductions when the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP ...