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Social Security employees fear that adding complicated unpaid pension claims to their priority list will push routine needs ...
Some 2.8 million Americans may be eligible to receive an increase in their monthly Social Security benefits. Are you one of ...
The Social Security Administration says it has processed 2.5 million retroactive payments to people previously locked out of retirement benefits.
The Social Security Fairness Act made it possible for many public servants to receive Social Security they'd earned on top of ...
The Social Security Fairness Act went into effect in Feb 2025 and the SSA has been sending billions in retroactive payments and benefit adjustments to qualifying individuals. The act gets rid of two ...
If the Social Security Fairness Act comes up for a vote in the Senate, it's expected to pass, having already secured the majority needed to send it to President Joe Biden for his signature.
President Biden is greeted by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, as he prepares to sign the Social Security Fairness Act on Jan. 5, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Subscribe to our weekly ...
So, you can see how increased benefits from the Social Security Fairness Act will impact that calculation. If your combined income is under $25,000 (single) or $32,000 (joint filing), there is ...
The Social Security Administration is manually processing complex cases. More than 80% of seniors affected by the Social Security Fairness Act have already received their benefit ...
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 2025. The Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law on January 5, 2025, eliminated two long-standing provisions: the Windfall Elimination Provision ...
Both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) were repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act. This affected Social Security’s costs at a time when the ...