{"id":1905,"date":"2025-08-05T22:28:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:12:20","slug":"social-security-fairness-act-update-july-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/2025\/08\/05\/social-security-fairness-act-update-july-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Fairness Act Update July 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration updated three questions on their web page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/benefits\/retirement\/social-security-fairness-act.html?tl=2%2C12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Social Security Fairness Act: Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) update<\/strong><\/a>. They are marked with the word \u201cUpdate!\u201d in red letters. The three questions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When will a person see their Social Security benefit increase because of the Social Security Fairness Act?<\/li>\n<li>What should people do now that the Social Security Fairness Act is law?<\/li>\n<li>What is SSA doing to ensure it can help people affected by the Social Security Fairness Act?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two key points in the answer to the first question are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAs of July 7, 2025, we completed sending over 3.1 million payments, totaling $17 billion, to beneficiaries eligible under the Social Security Fairness Act, <strong>5 months ahead of schedule<\/strong>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA beneficiary may receive two mailed notices, the first when WEP or GPO is removed from their record, and a second when their monthly benefit amount is adjusted for their new monthly payment amount. They may receive the past due payment before receiving the mailed notice.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration updated three questions on their WEP\/GPPO web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/02\/SSA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}