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BumRushDaShow

(165,725 posts)
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 06:14 PM Feb 2025

Social Security says higher payments are on the way for millions of former public workers

Source: AP

Updated 5:36 PM EST, February 25, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 3.2 million Social Security recipients who received pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public service jobs will soon see a boost in their benefits. Most people will receive their one-time retroactive payment by the end of March, and new monthly payments will begin in April, the agency says.

The Social Security Administration announced it would immediately begin processing retroactive payments and will send increased monthly payments to people affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, which were rescinded in the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act that former President Joe Biden signed into law last year.

The Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset limited Social Security benefits for recipients if they got retirement payments from other sources, including public retirement programs from a state or local government.

Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act rights a decades-old disparity, though it also puts a strain on Social Security Trust Funds, which face a looming insolvency crisis.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/social-security-trump-biden-benefits-b762f348a9464eb6d31a7625d08c522d

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Social Security says higher payments are on the way for millions of former public workers (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Feb 2025 OP
Conald will take credit for it Beachnutt Feb 2025 #1
Question about s.s fairness act Bvb1979 Mar 2025 #8
Deserved and good. Congress won't deal with the shortfall until forced. And then it will mean cuts for all CousinIT Feb 2025 #2
Even still you'll be better off than many Sucha NastyWoman Feb 2025 #3
Our only consolation Cousin, DENVERPOPS Feb 2025 #5
I am not entirely against people DENVERPOPS Feb 2025 #4
Good and bad DownriverDem Feb 2025 #6
The extra SS will be Federally taxable and Covid deaths helped the Trust Funds wishstar Feb 2025 #7

Bvb1979

(6 posts)
8. Question about s.s fairness act
Thu Mar 6, 2025, 03:36 PM
Mar 2025

I don't understand this law. My mother worked for the government USA for more than 30 years. Retired. She would be on the phone with OPM and I well just wasn't paying attention. I did hear her say windfall a CSR. My mother was married to my dad until she passed away in 2016. so I am trying to understand this new law I have googled it. I don't understand it. Can anyone please help me understand it. Like maybe like if I was in middle school. Is this law good or bad for my father. My father was a carpenter who took jobs from any one.then joined the carpenters Union in Houston TX. I know for a fact that they both paid taxes and everything was straight. My mother was a Mailman/ mail lady delivering mail on foot.before getting her USA IRS job. Then she went to the federal department of Commerce and retired from there they gave her a certificate of 30+ years of work it was sad to see her crying almost every day. I was just curious when I asked her if she wanted me to talk to her boss no threats just explain to me why is she crying? Basically the director didn't last long they fired him. My mother knew about the dep commerce in and outs. She spent so much time with her coworkers and learned about the export business.might I add that she had to answer a phone that was for spy's to call that agency and she had to go and call another agency and tell them so and so was in trouble overseas in another country and I assumed needed to leave the country they were at rapid.. She didn't want to answer the phone because she had 4 kids. Nobody wanted to pick up the phone when it rang. She I assume got security level bump up to do that.She didn't receive any pay raise for the hazardous material. Sorry I got off task it's my first post. She died my dad is alive today still and she made more money than my dad he is 69 so I have no idea what s all this windfall a CSR then the fairness act. He receives ss and a tiny pension less than 350 and the widow benefits not all of course. I am confused about somethings like is he supposed to get the higher amount my mother had can someone explain SS. This is the kind of question who some one who went to community college and UTA. I only know about information technology Network administrating what I went into and they never told us anything about that kind of stuff if it's too long you can delete this post I just don't know how to put it in words. Remember someone who is in high school cuz I don't understand it at all. Thank you for letting me post.

CousinIT

(12,236 posts)
2. Deserved and good. Congress won't deal with the shortfall until forced. And then it will mean cuts for all
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 06:19 PM
Feb 2025

even though other alternatives are available. But the fucking billionaires don't want to pay their fair share so solutions that avoid cuts such as lifting the cap won't be considered.

I deliberately planned to have my benefits cut by at least 30% when I retire. I will come up short. Add to that the MASSIVE inflation SHitler will cause and I'll be fucked.

Sucha NastyWoman

(3,018 posts)
3. Even still you'll be better off than many
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 06:49 PM
Feb 2025

Imagine having to deal with physical or mental health issues and trying to live on an unlivable amount of money.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
5. Our only consolation Cousin,
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 07:37 PM
Feb 2025

will be that the predominate number of Trumphumping voters will get creamed as bad as us, if not worse.......

None of my friends or family will come bitching to me, as I disowned every last one of them during the WBush administration.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
4. I am not entirely against people
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 07:23 PM
Feb 2025

who are gaming the system, with "double dipping" or even "Triple Dipping" from different government pension programs.....

I know a guy who was collecting three different pension programs. Working the minimum required years for one government pension, then working the minimum required years for another Government Pension, and then working the minimum years for Social Security...plus Veterans benefits........

Teachers had better be paying attention, because many of their pension's are under-funded, esp in Colorado, where teacher's retirement pension funds are grossly under funded.......

wishstar

(5,803 posts)
7. The extra SS will be Federally taxable and Covid deaths helped the Trust Funds
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 02:00 AM
Feb 2025

Maybe people like me who have been WEP'd and GPO'd for our retirement years will finally get back all the taxes we paid in to the system to be eligible for our pensions. Many of us are already over 70 years old getting small pensions so it's not going to be some huge windfall or drain on the system.

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