The increase stems from the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act, which lifted reductions on 3.2 million public sector workers.

Starting this month, important changes to Social Security have begun to take effect: the new 'Social Security Equity Act' ended the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, ...

Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden signed a bill letting millions of Americans receive retroactive Social ...

Answer: The Social Security Fairness Act did away with the windfall elimination provision and the government pension offset, two rules that reduced Social Security benefits for people receiving ...

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 - ...

Keeping up with Social Security lately feels like trying to follow a plot twist every week. Recent updates—from shifting ...

Social Security payments for certain recipients could be larger this week thanks to a law that was recently put into place.

Years back, lawmakers voted to make Social Security benefits eligible for an automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) ...

Two Social Security rules can take a big bite out of the benefits of pensioners and their spouses, ex-spouses and survivors.

The Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law in January 2025, eliminated both the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The new law was designed to restore ...

a law that ended the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset rules, both of which reduced benefits for retirees who received certain public pensions. More than 3 million ...