Some 2.8 million Americans may be eligible to receive an increase in their monthly Social Security benefits. Are you one of ...

Millions of seniors got a once-in-a-lifetime benefit boost last year as a result of the Social Security Fairness Act. This increased benefits for government workers who receive a pension based on work ...

Changes to Social Security benefits often take years to develop, but even after a law passes, implementation details can still spark debate. That is now happening with the Social Security Fairness Act ...

3 million public retirees received retroactive Social Security lump sums in 2025, pushing many past the 85% taxability threshold unexpectedly. The IRS lump-sum election lets retirees calculate taxes ...

The Social Security Fairness Act restored benefits for millions of teachers, but pushed many retirees past the $109,000 IRMAA cliff, adding $81 monthly to Part B premiums. Form SSA-44 IRMAA appeals ...

The Social Security Fairness Act—sorry, the Social Security “Fairness” Act—is, as I’ve said before, a $200 billion giveaway to people who neither paid for these benefits nor need them. Public ...

The last thing Sherrod Brown did as a senator was to push through the Social Security Fairness Act, a bill he had co-sponsored. Now public employees can get the Social security benefits that were ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, signed in January 2025, eliminated the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, retroactive to January 2024. This move restored $800 to $1,000+ ...

A retired public school teacher, age 71, lives on a $48,000 state pension and pulls roughly $36,000 a year from a $1.1 million 403(b). That puts her ordinary income near $84,000 before Social Security ...