A day after it announced the elimination of the Office of Transformation, the SSA said it was closing the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and that it would reassign the office's tasks - ...

The removal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) from Social Security, effective ...

Social Security payments for certain recipients could be larger this week thanks to a law that was recently put into place.

The Social Security Fairness Act is now being viewed as a landmark piece of legislation that restores long-denied income to ...

a law that ended the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset rules, both of which reduced benefits for retirees who received certain public pensions. More than 3 million ...

In January 2025, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, officially kicking the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) to the curb. Now ...

This was due to the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). However, those two measures have now been rescinded. As a result, about 3.2 million people who ...

For years, certain Social Security recipients saw their benefits reduced (or, in some cases, whittled down to nothing) thanks to two provisions -- the Windfall Elimination Provision and the ...

the new Social Security Fairness Act ends the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, enhancing monthly checks by about $360 for retirees, $700 for spouses, and $1,190 for ...