The Social Security landscape in the United States is undergoing significant changes, impacting millions of beneficiaries.

Social Security is changing — and so is the way your check is calculated, delivered, and protected. Staying informed can help ...

Some 2.8 million Americans may be eligible to receive an increase in their monthly Social Security benefits. Are you one of ...

Starting the week of Feb. 24, 2025, SSA is beginning to pay retroactive benefits and will increase monthly benefit payments to people whose benefits have been affected by the WEP and GPO. Social ...

WEP and GPO affected many teachers, firefighters, police officers, and other workers with pensions from non-Social Security-covered jobs. The repeal is retroactive to January 2024, ...

WEP doesn’t really affect all that many retirees. In 2018, for instance, just 1.8 million retirees, spouses and children, most of whom live in just seven states – California, ...

The WEP and GPO laws have been in effect since the early 1980s. Bills to repeal these offsets have been introduced in every Congress since then. And every year, for the past 30 years, ...

WEP and GPO: Explaining pension offsets About 10% of all workers, mostly in state and local jobs in the public sector, are not covered by Social Security.

Eliminating the WEP is a long-sought item on wish lists, but it'd be more, not less, unfair to do so when there are reasonable reform options instead. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

Many networks still rely on WEP for security: 59% of the 15,000 Wi-Fi networks surveyed in a large German city in September 2006 used it, with only 18% using the newer WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access ...

WEP doesn't actually keep anyone out. I like MaribelAlligator's comparison of a WEP key to a home bathroom lock, the one you can open just using a bent paperclip.