Yes, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) has been eliminated by the Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law in January 2025, retroactively applying to benefits starting in January 2024, meaning public servants' reduced Social Security benefits are now restored, with the Social Security Administration (SSA) starting recalculations and issuing payments for affected workers like teachers, police, and postal workers.
The Act was signed into law on January 5, 2025. The Act ends the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO).
The Social Security Fairness Act, HR 82, concerning the Windfall Elimination Program and Government Pension Offset, was signed into law on January 5, 2025. The Act eliminates the reduction of Social Security benefits while entitled to public pensions from work not covered by Social Security.
These WEP provisions were included in the legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan on April 21, 1983.
The Social Security Fairness Act, passed in December, repealed the WEP and GPO, and is retroactive until Jan. 2024. This means the benefits that affected retirees would have received absent the WEP and GPO, are owed to them through Jan. 2024.
The Social Security Fairness Act is now the law of the land. More than three million retirees are set to see an increase in their monthly Social Security benefits thanks to the new law, which repeals the decades-old Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) penalties.
Retirees previously impacted by WEP will see an average monthly benefit increase in social security of $360. Spouses and survivors affected by GPO will receive an average increase in social security of $700–$1,190 per month.
Bush financed income tax cuts and the Iraq war by plundering money from Social Security.
The WEP was repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law by President Biden on January 5, 2025. The new law is retroactive to benefits paid in 2024, but it is currently unclear how long it will take the Social Security Administration to fully implement its provisions.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the recent WEP-GPO repeal will cost $196 billion over ten years. While that cost might look “modest” at about $20 billion a year, Social Security has been paying benefits for 85 years.
The Social Security Fairness Act, was signed into law on January 5, 2025. The law ends two statutory reductions for railroad retirees, their spouses, and survivors who are receiving public pensions from work not covered by social security.
The extra $144 added to Social Security usually comes from the Medicare Part B Giveback benefit, offered by some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans, which pays back some or all your Part B premium, showing up as extra money in your check if it's deducted from your Social Security. To qualify, you need Original Medicare (Parts A & B), pay your own Part B premium, live in a plan's service area, and enroll in a specific Medicare Advantage plan that offers this "rebate," with the amount varying by plan and location.
the 30 years of contributions that would have prevented a WEP reduction under the old rules only is for years you paid into US Social Security. Your US contribution years are not added to years you contributed to another pension scheme, foreign or domestic. As an example.
The Act repealed two federal laws—the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) provision—which can reduce Social Security benefits when someone receives a pension for work on which they did not pay Social Security taxes.
The dollar amount increase to checks will vary depending on a person's benefit amount, but the average Social Security Retirement benefit, $2,008.31 in July 2025, will grow by about $56.
On January 5, 2025, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law, legislation that will repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO).
January 5, 2025, Update
The Social Security Fairness Act Repealing the WEP and GPO was signed by President Biden on January 5, 2025, and repeals the Windfall Elimination Program and Government Pension Offset.
The COLA was 2.5 percent in 2025. Nearly 71 million Social Security beneficiaries will see a 2.8 percent COLA beginning in January 2026. Increased payments to nearly 7.5 million people receiving SSI will begin on December 31, 2025. (Note: Some people receive both Social Security benefits and SSI).