As many as several million people have not received full back payments related to the repeal of the government pension offset and windfall elimination provision due to how the SSA interpreted the retroactive payment eligibility under the GPO-WEP repeal law, a bipartisan group of senators has said.
The Social Security Fairness Act, passed into law late in 2024 ended a long-running controversy over those two reductions that affect people who earned defined benefit retirement benefits from a system that does not include Social Security, such as the federal CSRS retirement system and some state and local government systems.
The GPO had reduced, and in many cases eliminated, spousal or survivor Social Security benefits of such persons. The WEP has reduced the personally earned Social Security benefits of such persons based on other earnings—such as employment before, after or on the side during, a federal career—for which they did pay into Social Security (unless those earnings exceeded an annual threshold for at least 30 years).
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