{"id":1097,"date":"2025-01-05T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:29:30","slug":"house-passes-social-security-fairness-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/2025\/01\/05\/house-passes-social-security-fairness-act\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden Signs Social Security Fairness Act, Repealing WEP and GPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1177 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/01\/President-Biden-Signing-SSA-Fairness-Act-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"President Biden signing Social Security Fairness Act\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/01\/President-Biden-Signing-SSA-Fairness-Act-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/01\/President-Biden-Signing-SSA-Fairness-Act-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/01\/President-Biden-Signing-SSA-Fairness-Act-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/01\/President-Biden-Signing-SSA-Fairness-Act.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">On January 5, 2025, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82, which repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), and Government Pension Offset (GPO). For decades, NARFE has advocated to repeal WEP and GPO.\u00a0 We thank our representatives who co-sponsored this bill and voted for its passage, and all the NARFE members who advocated in support of H.R. 82.\u00a0 To learn more, click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/01\/SocSec-Fairness-Act-2025-01-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/benefits\/retirement\/social-security-fairness-act.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security Administration<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has provided guidance on what you should do now if you are affected by the Social Security Fairness Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 5, 2025, President Biden signed into law the Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82, which repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), a legislative priority for NARFE for decades.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/01\/President-Biden-Signing-SSA-Fairness-Act.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0439\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}