The Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), enacted on January 5, 2025, marks a significant shift in Social Security benefits, ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides financial assistance to beneficiaries with limited income, including immigrants. However, a specific program formula, the Windfall Elimination ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision reduced benefits for certain workers, but its repeal by the Social Security Fairness Act could change how you plan for retirement.

The Social Security Administration says about 2 million people – 3.1% of beneficiaries – were subject to WEP reductions in 2022. Meanwhile, nearly 13% of spousal and survivor beneficiaries ...

The Issue Eliminating Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) would create an unequal benefit structure and hasten Social Security’s insolvency.

The elimination of the WEP and GPO under the Social Security Fairness Act may mean that you need to file for retroactive benefits. Here's everything you need to know. First of all, if you (or a ...

The Social Security Administration says it has processed 2.5 million retroactive payments to people previously locked out ... December 2023 was the last month the WEP and GPO applied, according to ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, which was passed in January, repealed both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP ... Karen Glenn, the Chief Actuary for the Social Security Administration (SSA), ...

There has been a flurry of activity at the Social Security Administration (SSA) ... The Social Security Fairness Act repealed the WEP and GPO. 2. Major staffing cuts.

Officials at the Social Security Administration said it could take more than a year for the agency to fully implement recently enacted legislation repealing two controversial tax provisions that ...

The problem is that people who spend the bulk of their working lives not paying into Social Security are automatically treated as low-income people by the Social Security Administration’s computers.

The Social Security Fairness Act ends both the WEP and the government pension offset, increasing the Social Security checks for more than 2 million retired public servants.