{"id":428,"date":"2025-02-04T00:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-02-04T00:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:52:15","slug":"ss-fairness-act-updates-from-ssa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/2025\/02\/04\/ss-fairness-act-updates-from-ssa\/","title":{"rendered":"SS Fairness Act &#8211; Updates from SSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration releases updates on a regular basis, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/benefits\/retirement\/social-security-fairness-act.html?tl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Social Security Fairness Act: WEP and GPO<\/strong><\/a> may be your best source of information for federal retirees looking for the implementation of benefits of the repeal of HR 82. Most annuitants will not need to contact OPM at all. Instead, be patient as you wait for the wheels of justice to be implemented. HOWEVER, those affected by the Government Pension Offset who did not file because they were excluded form benefits should\u00a0 now make every effort to contact your local Social Security Agency to make that initial application, the sooner the better. The SSA has an option to <strong>Subscribe<\/strong> to news updates. Try it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration releases updates on a regular basis, and linking to the SSA may be your best source of information for federal retirees looking for the implementation of benefits of the repeal of HR 82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-428","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\/News-4.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}