The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) was designed to prevent public sector employees—like teachers and firefighters—from receiving disproportionately high Social Security benefits due to working ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), enacted in 1983, aimed to adjust Social Security benefits for workers also receiving a pension from non-Social Security-covered employment. This provision was ...

U.S. News & World Report: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, highlighted fairness concerns surrounding the Windfall Elimination Provision ...

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