Social Security Fairness Act: Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) update

The Act was signed into law on January 5, 2025.

The Act ends the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). These provisions reduced or eliminated the Social Security benefits of over 3.2 million people who receive a pension based on work that was not covered by Social Security (a “non-covered pension”) because they did not pay Social Security taxes. This law increases Social Security benefits for certain types of workers, including some:

• teachers, firefighters, and police officers in many states;
• federal employees covered by the Civil Service Retirement System; and
• people whose work had been covered by a foreign social security system.

Learn more at the link below about the steps the Social Security Administration (SSA) is taking to implement the law.