The repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset should have restored benefits for everyone. For some retirees, the checks are still coming late or not at all.

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 ...

Most Americans go about their daily lives without thinking much about Social Security. It's just there, like the sun rising, like taxes in April. But quietly, steadily, the numbers behind the program ...

Seniors who received a windfall deposit as a result of the Social Security Fairness Act are now finding that the consequences of that unexpected benefit can be costly, especially in Illinois. As a ...

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The Social Security Administration has released a new expedited timeline for when more than 3.2 million individuals will see one-time payments and higher benefit checks following the enactment of a ...

A new CBO report moves the trust fund depletion date up by a full year. Here’s what that means for your retirement.

Many of the recent adjustments to Social Security stem from the implementation of the Social Security Fairness Act, which notably ends the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since 2012, Social Security Trustees Reports have indicated the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Fund ...

Social Security beneficiaries have seen some big changes over the last 13 months.

The Social Security Fairness Act signed at the beginning of 2025 is now unfair, at least when it comes to taxes, according to some representatives in Congress. The Social Security Fairness Act ...