The Windfall Elimination Provision can lower how much beneficiaries ... paid Social Security taxes on less than 30 years of substantial earnings, which is currently set at $31,275 in 2024.

The Social Security Amendments of 1983 (Public Law 98-21) provided for the WEP as a means of eliminating the "windfall" of social security benefits ... Calculate the Average Indexed Monthly Earnings ...

Members of Congress recently filed a discharge petition on a bill to repeal Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision ...

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

Individuals who have pension income may see their Social Security ... as the government pension offset, or GPO, and windfall elimination provision, or WEP — may not make the program's benefits ...

Under one program called the Windfall Elimination Provision, more than 213,570 recipients or their families are affected in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. And those impacted by another provision ...

Moreover, simply eliminating the rules — formally known as the government pension offset, or GPO, and windfall elimination provision ... who also have pension income. More than 745,000 Americans ...