For retired public sector workers, the long-awaited Social Security Fairness Act promises relief from reduced benefits.

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

Millions of retired Americans are set to benefit, but there are concerns the program could run out of funds sooner.

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 ...

Social Security checks saw a 2.5% boost this ... for workers who previously had benefits reduced due to the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and spouses of these workers who had benefits ...

For decades, clients who worked in various state and local government positions have seen their Social Security benefits slashed because of two key provisions: the Windfall Elimination Provision ...

(Photo illustration by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Together, the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset were responsible for significantly reducing Social Security ...

On January 5, 2025, Joe Biden signed a bill into law that raises Social Security benefits for millions of Americans. The increase applies to current and former public service workers, such as police ...

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 ...

The average benefit increase will be about $360 per month. "With a full repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) now signed into law ...