More than 3 million people are about to get a bump to their Social Security checks thanks to the Social Security Fairness Act, a new law that eliminates two previous rules that reduced retirees' ...

The Social Security Fairness Act will eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, ...

For his last term in office former President Joe Biden sign a new social security measure to ehance benefits for millions of ...

Under the SSA’s current budget, the agency expects it could take more than one year to adjust benefits and pay all retroactive benefits.

This Social Security Fairness Act checklist explains what public sector retirees can expect from SSFA, including how much ...

The Social Security program is very complex and has many rules regarding who can claim benefits, when they can claim benefits, and how much they can claim. The Social Security Fairness Act eliminated ...

The repeal of two provisions will boost Social Security payments for certain beneficiaries, and will include back payments.

(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 ...