Learn how the Social Security Fairness Act may increase your retirement benefits by eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset.

Two Social Security rules can take a big bite out of the benefits of pensioners and their spouses, ex-spouses and survivors.

I need a job and want out of this marriage. The previous provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset — cut some beneficiaries’ checks nearly in half ...

This eliminated two key provisions -- the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) -- that reduced benefits for government workers and their spouses.

That’s because although lawmakers in both parties voted overwhelmingly to send the Social Security Fairness Act, a bill repealing Social Security’s windfall elimination provision and ...

The second is the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), which cut Social Security payments for some government retirees. Government Pension Offset. The repeal of the GPO will increase Social ...

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates two key provisions that previously reduced Social Security benefits for public sector workers: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) reduced Social ...

Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins is demanding the Social Security Administration quickly implement the Social Security Fairness Act. The act, signed into law in January, repeals penalties that ...