{"id":325,"date":"2025-01-05T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/?p=325"},"modified":"2025-01-24T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T01:54:21","slug":"the-social-security-fairness-act-wep-gpo-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/2025\/01\/05\/the-social-security-fairness-act-wep-gpo-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Fairness Act now PL 118-273: WEP-GPO Repealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_374\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/01\/2025.01.05.white_.house_.04-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374\" class=\"wp-image-374 size-medium img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/01\/2025.01.05.white_.house_.04-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"White House East Room setting up for bill signing with three seated, rows of empty chairs, television cameras, and uniformed service members.\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/01\/2025.01.05.white_.house_.04-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/01\/2025.01.05.white_.house_.04-1024x872.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/01\/2025.01.05.white_.house_.04-768x654.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/01\/2025.01.05.white_.house_.04-1536x1308.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/01\/2025.01.05.white_.house_.04-2048x1743.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Hatton, Teresa Baker, and Bill Shackelford in the East Room for the bill signing ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NARFE National President William \u201cBill\u201d Shackelford, NARFE Staff Vice President for Policy and Programs John Hatton, and Teresa Baker, NARFE Chapter 1734 of Howard County President and Maryland Federation Federal Legislative Vice-Chair, were invited to the White House for the signing of the <strong>Social Security Fairness Act <\/strong>(Public Law No: 118-273) on January 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks before signing the bill, U.S. President Joe Biden recognized several of the many Representatives and Senators in attendance who each played a role in moving the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act through the legislative process. Now that this bill has been enacted repealing the WEP and the GPO, the Social Security Administration is evaluating how to implement it and will post information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/benefits\/retirement\/social-security-fairness-act.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>online<\/strong> <\/a>as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security Fairness Act to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision WEP and Government Pension Offset GPO was signed by President Joe Biden and is now Public Law 118-273<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2025\/01\/LegislativeAlert.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}