{"id":1197,"date":"2024-12-31T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2025-06-01T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T22:30:02","slug":"president-biden-signs-social-security-fairness-act-january-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/2024\/12\/31\/president-biden-signs-social-security-fairness-act-january-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden Signs Social Security Fairness Act January 5, 2025, 4 pm ET UPDATE Watch on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve received word that the date and time have been updated to Sunday, January 5, 4 PM Eastern<\/span><\/p>\n

Update \u2013 President Biden has officially signed the \u201cSocial Security Fairness Act\u201d H.R. 82.\u00a0 Watch on YouTube actual signing at 15:02:<\/p>\n

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Per NARFE National President, William Shackelford,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Social Security Fairness Act [HR-82} will be signed at the White House on Sunday, January 5, 4 PM ET (edited 1\/4\/25)<\/strong><\/span>. I received an invitation to the signing and will be in attendance proudly representing NARFE*.<\/p>\n

[Update 1\/4\/2025 not part of his original message:\u00a0 Late breaking news: The bill signing will be livestreamed and\u00a0members may use this link<\/a> to view the event.]<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to all NARFE members for your efforts in reaching this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill will repeal the unfair Windfall Elimination Provision \u201cWEP\u201d and Government Pension Offset \u201cGPO\u201d from the Social Security Act which has impacted millions of retirees including many federal workers nationwide, and teachers and firefighters in 15 states including Texas.\u00a0 This has been a primary goal of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees since 1985!<\/p>\n

A big thank you to everyone for their Advocacy effort with Congress that helped make this happen.<\/p>\n

*National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, a non-profit membership association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Biden signed the “Social Security Fairness Act HR-82 Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 4 PM Eastern. NARFE National President William Shackelford was present representing the National Active and Retired Federal Employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23,21,24,22],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gpo","tag-hr82","tag-social-security-fairness","tag-wep"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/12\/White-house.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0672\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}