The Quiet Windfall Hiding in Public Sector Pensions A retired teacher in Ohio spent 28 years in a classroom and summers ...

You may feel unsure about how these new Social Security rules affect your retirement income, especially if you worked in public service or have a government pension. The **Social Security Fairness Act ...

The elimination of WEP and GPO under the Social Security Fairness Act is delivering major benefit increases and lump-sum payments to public workers.

In her latest monthly Social Security Advisor newsletter, Heather Schreiber discusses “retroactive benefits.” These are ...

When the Social Security Fairness Act passed in 2025, many people were told that they would see a boost in their Social ...

A Pingree Grove widow’s $55,000 Social Security payment was stolen before she ever saw it, revealing how many Americans may ...

The kitchen-table math after the WEP repeal A 67-year-old retired Houston police officer has a city pension of $58,000 a year ...

Lawmakers are pressuring the Social Security Administration to reverse a policy that is withholding thousands of dollars from recipients. Enacted in January 2025, the Social Security Fairness Act ...

On a Wednesday in mid-March, Janica Barnes sat in the gallery of room 102 at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse and waited for a judge to decide what would happen to her son, 22-year-old James Jones. He ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) calculates COLAs based on how inflation changes during the third quarter, meaning the three-month period between July and September. In this scenario, ...

A Washington think tank caused a stir recently with a paper that proposed capping annual Social Security benefits at $100,000 to shore up the retirement trust fund. Social Security faces a shortfall ...

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