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The legislation would repeal decades-old tax rules known as the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) that have reduced Social Security benefits for workers ...
A law passed last week as Congress narrowly averted a partial government shutdown ... (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). The legislation effectively revokes 1980 rules that reduced ...
The WEP impacts about 2 million Social Security beneficiaries and the GPO nearly 800,000 retirees. Various forms of the measure have been introduced over the years, but like many legislative ...
U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law on Jan. 5., increasing the ability of retired public service workers who receive pensions to access Social Security ...
In 2024, HR 82, the Social Security Fairness Act—repealing the WEP—passed both houses of Congress, and was signed by President Joe Biden on January 5, 2025. [11] According to the Congressional Research Service, approximately 2.1 million people were affected by the WEP as of December 2023.
The two repealed laws are the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), enacted in 1984, and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which became law in 1977. The original laws were passed at a time when ...
Together, WEP and GPO affect nearly 3 million Americans including police officers, firefighters, postal workers and public-school teachers. The Senate approved the bill by a vote of 70-26 at 12:15 ...
The Government Pension Offset (GPO) was a statutory provision in United States law which affected benefits paid by the Social Security Administration. It was repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 (H.R. 82), which President Biden signed on January 5, 2025.