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 ...

It could take a year or longer to fully implement the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), says the Social Security Administration (SSA). The SSA has ...

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

Those who applied for Social Security and were denied due to government pension offset rule or windfall elimination provision ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the repeal will cost taxpayers $196 billion over the next decade, plus an ...

On January 5, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act that repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) provisions of Social Security ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). These provisions only affected about 3% of households, but significantly reduced the amount of Social Security ...

the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). Each of those rules reduced Social Security benefits based on an individual’s participation in a government ...

(Photo illustration by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Together, the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government ... repealing the WEP and the GPO may result in an average monthly increase ...

This bipartisan legislation removes two provisions which had eliminated or reduced Social Security benefits for many individuals who also receive pensions, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP ...

and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) in effect for over 40 years. This law will have an extensive impact in Ohio on employees of governmental agencies, including public schools and police/fire ...

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 ...