{"id":366,"date":"2025-01-21T21:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-01-21T21:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:17:14","slug":"wep-gpo-repealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/2025\/01\/21\/wep-gpo-repealed\/","title":{"rendered":"WEP\/GPO repealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Suchocki wrote via FEDHub, \u201cOn Sunday, January 5, 2025 President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, H.R.82, <strong>repealing the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). <\/strong>This is great news for any CSRS annuitant who may be entitled to Social Security benefits based on non-federal income or may be entitled to Social Security benefits based on surviving spouse\u2019s entitlement, but never received those benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click on links below for more info.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/narfe-applauds-historic-repeal-of-wep-gpo-with-the-signing-of-the-social-security-fairness-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NARFE applauds WEP\/GPO repeal<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/benefits\/retirement\/social-security-fairness-act.html.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security updates on WEP\/GPO repeal<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/advocacy\/social-security-fairness-act-frequently-asked-questions\/?_zs=a8FQo&amp;_zl=ib9D3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WEP\/GPO Questions and Answers<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/recognize-how-your-representatives-and-senators-voted-on-hr-82\/?_zs=a8FQo&amp;_zl=pb9D3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Send a Thank You<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) have been repealed.  H.R.82 was signed into law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2025\/01\/2025-01-12-_WEP_GPO-repealed-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0124\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}