Imagine you’re a public school teacher or police officer in, say, California. You’ve reached retirement age, but because of the way your pension was structured, you don’t qualify for Social Security ...
The SSFA is designed to eliminate the windfall elimination provision (WEP) and government pension offset (GPO) from the Social Security system, as WEP and GPO decreased the monthly Social Security ...
The Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), enacted on January 5, 2025, aims to eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). These provisions previously reduced ...
As tax season kicks off and Americans start thinking about their 2025 returns, more than 3 million public sector retirees are seeing a welcome change: bigger Social Security checks, thanks to the ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced Tuesday that ...
The SSFA repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) from 1989 and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) from 1977, according to Don Grant, a CFP and CFP Board ambassador at CFP Board. “Those two ...