Two key provisions, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), have historically ...
The Social Security Fairness Act, signed by then-President Biden on Jan. 5, is a terrible piece of legislation. It simply ...
Kurt Czarnowski of Czarnowski Consulting, a retirement planning firm, gives an example using a Massachusetts schoolteacher ...
Over 2 million Social Security beneficiaries had their retirement incomes reduced because of two programs. Here's how the ...
The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates two provisions, the WEP and the GPO, that have been penalizing a sizable portion ...
The bottom line is that those receiving public pensions based on their own work who are or were married to a Social Security ...
The Social Security Fairness Act is now law, and a year of backdated payments await nearly 3 million Americans.
Retirees with public pensions and their spouses are now eligible for their full Social Security benefits.
The WEP impacted individuals’ direct Social Security ... two-thirds of the individual’s government pension benefit. For example, if the individual was receiving a $1,500 government pension ...