Some people haven't received all their Social Security benefits, even though they paid into the system. A new law changes ...

You may feel unsure about how these new Social Security rules affect your retirement income, especially if you worked in ...

The elimination of WEP and GPO under the Social Security Fairness Act is delivering major benefit increases and lump-sum payments to public workers.

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminated two long-standing rules: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). These measures were originally intended to ...

If you've been on Social Security for a while, changes to the program may not seem all that unusual to you. Each year, the government makes updates to benefits and the formula used to calculate them.

Picture a 68-year-old retired math teacher in San Antonio. She spent 32 years in Texas classrooms, earned a $54,000 annual pension from the Teacher Retirement System (TRS), and picked up work on the ...

The Social Security Fairness Act provides more than 2.8 million beneficiaries who receive public pensions with higher monthly payments and retroactive lump-sum payments dating back to 2024. The law ...

Two laws enacted in 2025, President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" and the Social Security Fairness Act, may change beneficiaries' federal tax liability on their benefits. Here's how those ...

Legislation that would reform some aspects of Social Security is gaining steam in Congress. The measure, dubbed the Social Security Fairness Act, would do away with tax rules that proponents say have ...

These benefit adjustments are still technically Social Security income, which means the federal government could tax some of it. This could reduce your tax refund this year or possibly even lead to a ...