The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) can significantly impact your Social Security benefits if you receive a pension from ...

Some 2.8 million Americans may be eligible to receive an increase in their monthly Social Security benefits. Are you one of ...

There is a companion law called the “windfall elimination provision,” more commonly known by its acronym, WEP, which usually reduces any Social Security retirement benefits earned at side jobs ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision. ... Social Security couldn’t pay that spouse’s benefit because their own benefit offsets it. Before enactment the GPO law in 1977, ...

The windfall elimination provision reduced the Social Security benefits of retired federal workers and other public servants who spent a portion of their career in the private sector in addition ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) reduces Social Security for those who receive so-called “non-covered” pension income from jobs, typically public sector roles, that didn’t contribute ...

Both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) were repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act.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 ...

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

Social Security benefits will be depleted in 2033, according to SSA’s latest trustees report, and retirees will need extra ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision for Social Security benefits should absolutely be eliminated as quickly as possible. This provision was poorly thought out with little regard to the consequences.

The Social Security Administration says it has processed 2.5 million retroactive payments to people previously locked out of retirement benefits.