The SSA has now confirmed it has sent out 3.1 million payments to those impacted by the Social Security Fairness Act.

The Social Security Administration says it has processed 2.5 million retroactive payments to people previously locked out of retirement benefits.

Personal income in May dipped for the first time since 2021, according to government data, but people aren't actually getting ...

Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll ...

The Social Security Fairness Act gets rid of two long-standing laws: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the ...

Social Security benefits end when you die, unless you have a qualifying beneficiary who would begin to receive survivorship ...

The agency said it is temporarily reassigning about 1,000 customer service representatives from field offices to work on the ...

Social Security employees fear that adding complicated unpaid pension claims to their priority list will push routine needs ...

Now, more than 40 years after WEP was enacted, the Social Security Fairness Act has rolled it back. With bipartisan support, the act was signed into law on Jan. 5, 2025.

Editor's note: A correction was made to this story to clarify that non-covered workers did not pay Social Security taxes on their pensions, according to the SSA website. On Jan. 5, former ...

The Social Security Fairness Act of 2023, also known as H.R. 82, amends Title II of the Social Security Act by repealing the Government Pension Offset (GPO), enacted in 1977, and the Windfall ...

The Social Security Fairness Act 2025. The Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law on January 5, 2025, eliminated two long-standing provisions: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and ...