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

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

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 ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, signed by then-President Biden on Jan. 5, is a terrible piece of legislation.

Investopedia spoke with Isabel Barrow at Edelman Financial Engines to discuss the changes the new Social Security Fairness ...

In 1983, the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, which reduced Social Security payments for retired police officers, firefighters, postal workers and teachers ...

The recently passed Social Security Fairness Act will result in increases for workers who previously had benefits reduced due to the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and spouses of these workers ...

These provisions only affected about 3% of households, but significantly reduced the amount of Social Security benefits one was able to receive. The WEP, enacted in 1983, was a reform that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...