The U.S. Congress enacted legislation to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), the federal offsets to Social Security benefits. The repeal was through the “Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82.” President Biden signed the measure into law on January 5, 2025.
The House of Representatives voted in favor of the Act by a wide margin of 327 to 75 on November 12, 2024. The chief co-sponsor of the legislation was Louisiana Representative Garret Graves.
It was approved in the Senate by a 76 to 20 margin after midnight on December 20, 2024.
The WEP and GPO penalized public sector workers who earned a pension from employment that was not covered by Social Security and earned a Social Security benefit.
The legislation is effective for all monthly insurance payments made after December 2023. The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides details of its implementation of the repeal at this link: Social Security