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The WEP is Over: How It's Rise and Fall Affects Some Workers' Social Security Payments

Social Security is a complex program that has undergone a number of changes since the program was signed into law in 1935. One of those changes? The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), which came to ...
Morningstar

Would claiming a foreign benefit affect my $3,674 Social Security payment?

'My 40 quarters for Social Security eligibility were reached in 1983' "I could have claimed Austrian retirement on my 65th birthday in 2023, but concerns about the Windfall Elimination Provision ...
AOL

Congress Quietly Changed a Social Security Rule in 2026 and Most Retirees Haven’t Noticed

Most retirees know the basics: claim early and get less, wait and get more. But a law signed in early 2025 rewrote rules that had quietly penalized millions of public workers for decades, and the ...
Government Executive

A year after the Social Security Fairness Act, some retirees are still waiting for full benefits

On Jan. 5, 2025, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA) into law, repealing two onerous Social Security provisions: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government ...