Federal Managers Association

FMA Working for You

• Lawmakers file discharge petition to repeal controversial tax rule affecting federal retirees - September 10, 2024

• FMA has endorsed the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82), which would fully repeal both the GPO and WEP. We are working with Reps. Graves and Spanberger in their effort to expedite and advance the will of the House.

  Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  A bipartisan pair of lawmakers on Tuesday filed a discharge petition seeking to force a vote on the House floor on a measure that would eliminate a pair of controversial tax rules that reduce the retirement benefits of some ex-government workers.

  Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Garret Graves, R-La., are the lead sponsors of the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82), a measure introduced last year that would eliminate Social Security’s windfall elimination provision and government pension offset.

  The windfall elimination provision reduces the Social Security benefits of retried employees who spent a portion of their careers in the private sector in addition to a federal, state or local government post where Social Security is not intended as an element of their retirement income, like the federal government’s Civil Service Retirement System. And the government pension offset reduces spousal and survivor Social Security benefits in families with retired government workers.

  To read the full article, click here.

##