{"id":1016,"date":"2025-02-02T06:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T11:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2025-02-26T05:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:37:18","slug":"the-social-security-fairness-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/2025\/02\/02\/the-social-security-fairness-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Security Fairness Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE applauds the historic repeal of Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) with the signing of the Social Security Fairness Act.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NARFE National President William \u201cBill\u201d Shackelford wrote \u201cSince their inception, NARFE has opposed the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) as unfair penalties that punished hardworking public servants by reducing their Social Security benefits. Today, history was made as President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law. This milestone represents the culmination of years of tireless advocacy by NARFE and its members, who time and again made the case for fairness and equality in Social Security benefits.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Visit the Social Security Administration site to learn about the implementation of this Act <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/benefits\/retirement\/social-security-fairness-act.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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. Click on the title or graphic to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2025\/01\/President-Biden-Signing-SSA-Fairness-Act.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}