If a beneficiary is due retroactive benefits as a result of the Act, they will receive a one-time retroactive payment, ...

Most people will receive their one-time retroactive payment by the end of March, and new monthly payments will begin in April ...

As a part of the Social Security Fairness Act, the Social Security Administration announced it will expedite retroactive payments and higher monthly benefits for millions.

So, it created the government pension offset and windfall elimination provision. Last year, Congress decided to repeal those provisions and retroactively increase the benefits of people who were ...

According to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), ending the Windfall Elimination Provision will increase monthly benefits for an average of two million affected Americans.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that ending the Windfall Elimination Provision will increase monthly benefits for more than two million Americans. Repealing the Government Pension ...

By eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, the law restores Social Security benefits that many public workers were previously denied. For 67-year-old ...

The previous provisions - the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset - cut some beneficiaries' checks nearly in half, costing them thousands of dollars in lost benefits.

Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part series about making the most of the changes in Social Security benefits ... The repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the ...

In the waning days of the Biden administration, Congress passed legislation to remedy a longstanding complaint from people ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision impacted workers’ retirement benefits, while the Government Pension Offset was tied to spousal and survivor benefits. Affected Social Security beneficiaries ma ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset limited Social Security benefits for recipients if they got retirement payments from other sources, including public retirement ...