Reps. Garret Graves (R-LA) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) overcame resistance from leadership to move legislation through ...

Meanwhile, Vermont only had 3% of employees not covered by Social Security. The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) has been around since 1983 and affects public employees who received a pension ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, a bill to undo WEP and GPO, has enough support to force a floor vote. But that’s unlikely to happen until at least November.

The Social Security Fairness Act was proposed to reverse the rules surrounding the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). These two Social Security rules can ...

House lawmakers have the signatures they need to prompt a vote on a bill that would eliminate rules limiting Social Security ...

10 to discharge House Resolution 82 to the House floor. The 1980s-era Windfall Elimination Penalty and Government Pension Offset prevent government retirees like police, teachers, firefighters ...

And the law that applies to you is called the “windfall elimination provision,” or WEP. To understand the reasoning behind the law, I’ve got to explain something about our Social Security ...

If you qualify for Social Security and collect a pension from a job that doesn’t pay FICA taxes, your Social Security income will be reduced but not eliminated. If you qualify for Social Security and ...

The appropriations... Members of Congress recently filed a discharge petition on a bill to repeal Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension offset (GPO), which the ...