{"id":169,"date":"2025-03-08T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T23:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:52:06","slug":"wep-gpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/2025\/03\/08\/wep-gpo\/","title":{"rendered":"NARFE information about the WEP\/GPO Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, 2024, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 82, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/benefits\/retirement\/social-security-fairness-act.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security Fairness Act<\/a><\/strong>, to repeal the windfall elimination provision (WEP) and the government pension offset (GPO).\u00a0Congressional passage of the bill is a historic victory for the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE), which has been advocating for repeal of WEP and GPO for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On April 15, 2025, the Social Security Administration (SSA) issued an update regarding the timing of retroactive payments and adjusted monthly benefits for beneficiaries who were impacted by the WEP and the GPO. <\/span>\u00a0Information is available from our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/22\/wep-gpo-update-from-social-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEP\/GPO has been repealed!!!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2025\/05\/social-security-logo-png-3-e1748710968351.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1643\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}