For decades, Americans have seen lower Social Security checks if they fall into the circumstances under the WEP and GPO.

A spokesperson for the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems added "since the effective date of H.R 82 [the Social Security Fairness Act] is after December 2023, by law SSA has to ...

President Joe Biden stated the measure will raise Social Security benefits by an average of $360 monthly for 2.8 million ...

The Social Security Fairness Act is now law, and a year of backdated payments await nearly 3 million Americans.

This is the latest in a series of columns about Social Security and retirement income planning. Social Security experts ...

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Image source: Getty Images. The Social Security Fairness Act would repeal two federal policies: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The WEP can affect ...

Since the 1980s, some public sector workers have seen their earned Social Security benefit amounts cut sharply due to a little-understood rule called the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP).

The Senate has joined the House in passing a bill that would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The House had passed the Social Security Fairness ...

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