{"id":423,"date":"2025-02-01T23:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/?p=423"},"modified":"2025-02-01T23:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T05:56:56","slug":"ss-fairness-act-updates-from-narfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/2025\/02\/01\/ss-fairness-act-updates-from-narfe\/","title":{"rendered":"SS Fairness Act &#8211; Updates from NARFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE and affiliated organization were successful in passing HR 82 to repeal the misnamed \u201cWindfall Elimination Provision\u201d and Government Pension Offset, known together by the acronyms WEP\/GPO.\u00a0 Now we await word from the Social Security Office about the implementation of the backpay and adjustment of benefits due federal retirees. To assist in gathering this information, NARFE has provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/advocacy\/social-security-fairness-act-frequently-asked-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SS Fairness Act-Frequently Asked Questions<\/strong><\/a> page.\u00a0 Since the current political environment changes quickly, it pays to \u201cbookmark\u201d this page and return to it often to keep abreast of the status of information. Once again we can thank the National Active and Retired Federal Employees association for providing the information we need, and protecting our earned benefits.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/lp\/join-54z\/?utm_source=r06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join NARFE<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE has provided a SS Fairness Act-Frequently Asked Questions page located at: https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/advocacy\/social-security-fairness-act-frequently-asked-questions\/. Please bookmark this page and return often to see the latest updates on the implementation of HR 82 and the repeal of WEP\/GPO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/135\/2025\/01\/NARFE-monogram-logo-rgb-sm.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}