On January 5, 2025, the Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law, marking a major reform for public sector workers, including firefighters, police officers and teachers. This law eliminates ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). These provisions only affected about 3% of households, but significantly reduced the amount of Social Security ...

Over three million retirees who worked in the public sector, or are entitled to spousal or surviving spousal benefits, will ...

Then-President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law on Jan. 5, effectively increasing and retroactively paying back Social Security benefits to public sector workers who have ...

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

Those who applied for Social Security and were denied due to government pension offset rule or windfall elimination provision ...