Though Congress acted on a bipartisan basis last year to pass legislation ending two controversial tax provisions that ...

Public sector retirees, spouses' or surviving spouses' benefits will be delayed until further notice. The SSA must manually ...

Callers to the SSA hear a message about the Social Security Fairness Act, intended to reduce long and frustrating wait times ...

Two key provisions, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), have historically ...

Under the WEP, the SSA could reduce your monthly benefit payment by up to half of the amount of your pension. (By law, it could not eliminate your benefit entirely; Social Security set a cap on the ...

The WEP impacted individuals’ direct Social Security benefits ... the individual worked in non-covered employment. The maximum reduction during 2024 was $587 per month (or, if the individual ...

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

The Social Security Fairness Act ends both the WEP and the government pension offset, increasing the Social Security checks ...

According to Blair, the maximum reduction for WEP is $480. “There is a provision that guarantees Social Security will not reduce a Social Security benefit by more than half of a low pension ...

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 and Government ... co-founder of the National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts. The maximum reduction was about $600. But the formula used ...

A reader wants to know if contributions to a teacher's retirement system will reduce her Social Security benefit and how to avoid that impact. People who earn a pension while not paying the Social ...