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The SSA has now confirmed it has sent out 3.1 million payments to those impacted by the Social Security Fairness Act.

Q. I receive a significant pension from work I have done outside of Social Security. I have not worked enough hours under ...

The majority of affected beneficiaries already began receiving their increased monthly benefit amounts in April.

Social Security benefits end when you die, unless you have a qualifying beneficiary who would begin to receive survivorship ...

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 gets rid of two long-standing laws: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, which was passed in January, repealed both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). This change controversially increased ...

Claims for Social Security benefits have skyrocketed since the beginning of 2025, data from the Social Security ...

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 ...

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminated the Government Pension Offset (GPO). This rule restricted benefits available to spouses of workers who received a non-covered pension.

Again, that Social Security benefit offset has been in place ever since the beginning of the program in the 1930s. But by the mid-1970s, Congress noted a glitch in that law.