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

The Social Security Fairness Act will boost benefits for 3.2M public workers once the agency can plow past multiple ...

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

Learn how the Social Security Fairness Act may increase your retirement benefits by eliminating the Windfall Elimination ...

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 WEP affected the retirement and disability payments paid by the SSA to state and federal employees - including some teachers, police officers and firefighters - who also collect public ...

The WEP reduced benefits for retired or disabled workers with fewer than 30 years of employment in which they paid into the social security system, if the workers also received non-covered pensions.

The law eliminates two Social Security policies that reduced benefits for retirees with a public pension: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO).

Nationwide, about 3 million public-sector retirees will receive substantially higher Social Security benefits due to the law’s repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the ...

Eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) makes Social Security less - not more - fair. For specifics of the windfalls, see my recent column or an ...