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

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the repeal will cost taxpayers $196 billion over the next decade, plus an ...

As 2024 came to a close, the White House and Congress approved big giveaways to two subsets of state and local government ...

I stood in front of my colleagues at the National Education Association Representative Assembly to fund efforts to repeal two unfair Social Security provisions — the Government Pension Offset and ...

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates two provisions, the WEP and the GPO, that have been penalizing a sizable portion ...

Commentary: Social Security is not a handout; it’s an earned benefit paid into by workers and their employers. But for ...

President Joe Biden signed House Bill 82 into law, opening up many people to Social Security benefits they weren't eligible ...

The Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law on Jan. 5 following years of lobbying efforts. Why policy experts are ...

After decades of advocacy, public sector workers celebrate the repeal of laws that cut their Social Security benefits, thanks ...

First, it gets rid of the Windfall Elimination Provision, which could reduce benefits for workers ... partly funded by those who regularly paid into Social Security. Proponents of the bill say the old ...

Government pensions are valuable retirement benefits, but they have long come with a downside. A non-covered pension had the potential to reduce someone's Social Security benefits by hundreds ...

Kate Dias was still in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning, ostensibly because of a significant snowstorm that hit the nation’s capitol early this week, but she spent some time savoring a piece of ...