It took 40 years for Congress to pass a law to boost Social Security for public workers. Now, SSA says they must wait at ...

Over three million retirees who worked in the public sector, or are entitled to spousal or surviving spousal benefits, will ...

The Social Security Fairness Act will provide benefit increases to more than 3 million individuals. But it’s uncertain when ...

Retirees looking forward to increased benefits because of the Social Security Fairness Act may now have to wait more than one ...

Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez In January 2025, former President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law.

The repeal of two provisions will boost Social Security payments for certain beneficiaries, and will include back payments.

The Social Security Fairness Act, which was sponsored with bipartisan support, passed through Congress at the end of December, with a 76-20 vote in the Senate. The law has received mixed responses ...

For many years Ventura County Rep. Salud Carbajal has considered it unfair that some public servants, including teachers and ...

Undocumented workers often pay taxes that help fund programs like Social Security — even if they can’t collect from them in ...

The Social Security Fairness Act makes it possible for those who opted out of Social Security at some point during their career to receive more retirement benefits. It does this in two ways. First, it ...

According to a formula outlined in the Social Security Act, COLAs are based on increases in the CPI-W. Specifically, a COLA is equal to the percentage increase in the CPI-W from the average for ...

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates two federal policies that barred employees with a public pension from collecting their full benefits under the federal retirement program and that ...