A day after it announced the elimination of the Office of Transformation, the SSA said it was closing the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and that it would reassign the office's tasks - ...

The change represents a 2.3 percent increase in monthly average payments over the year, closely mirroring the 2.5 percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) announced by the Social Security ...

and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Those measures reduced or prevented Social Security benefits for more than 3.2 million people with a pension and whose past work wasn't subject to Social ...

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and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduced benefits for certain retirees who also received pension income. Here's what to do if your Social Security benefits were reduced in the past ...

A bill that would mandate the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to screen state wards for Social Security benefit eligibility advanced Thursday to the second round ...

For Social Security, the withheld amount cannot reduce monthly payments below $750 to ensure a minimum level of support. Wage garnishment: In addition to benefit offsets, the government can ...

These reforms mainly impact: Retirees, whose monthly checks have increased to better offset rising costs. Americans with disabilities, who often rely entirely on Social Security benefits to cover ...

Now, beneficiaries who previously lost out on Social Security because of the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset could see their monthly benefits increase. But while ...