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3 days agoCongress Quietly Changed a Social Security Rule in 2026 and Most Retirees Haven't Noticed
The Social Security Fairness Act, signed on January 5, 2025, eliminated two reductions known as the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset. In plain terms: if you received a pension from a job that did not pay into Social Security, such as many state and local government positions, those provisions had been cutting your Social Security benefit, sometimes dramatically. Now they cannot.
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