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• SSA: It could take more than a year to implement the WEP and GPO repeal - January 30, 2025

• Though Congress acted on a bipartisan basis last year to pass legislation ending two controversial tax provisions that affected some federal workers and other public servants, it failed to give the Social Security Administration any money to implement it.

  Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  Officials at the Social Security Administration said it could take more than a year for the agency to fully implement recently enacted legislation repealing two controversial tax provisions that reduced the retirement benefits of federal workers.

  That’s because although lawmakers in both parties voted overwhelmingly to send the Social Security Fairness Act, a bill repealing Social Security’s windfall elimination provision and government pension offset to then-President Biden’s desk last year, they didn’t provide the agency with any extra money to help effectuate the changes.

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