The U.S. House of Representatives has taken a significant step toward eliminating two contentious provisions of the Social Security Act: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO).
Championed by a bipartisan coalition led by Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Garret Graves (R-LA), the Social Security Fairness Act seeks to rectify what its advocates call decades of unfair treatment of over two million public servants, including police officers, educators, and firefighters. Read the rest