{"id":440,"date":"2025-01-05T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/?p=440"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:00:50","slug":"social-security-fairness-act-of-2023-signed-into-law-152025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/uncategorized\/social-security-fairness-act-of-2023-signed-into-law-152025\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 signed into Law &#8211; 1\/5\/2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Social Security Fairness Act of 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This bill repeals provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for individuals who receive other benefits, such as a pension from a state or local government.<\/p>\n<p>The bill eliminates the government pension offset, which in various instances reduces Social Security benefits for spouses, widows, and widowers who also receive government pensions of their own.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also eliminates the windfall elimination provision, which in some instances reduces Social Security benefits for individuals who also receive a pension or disability benefit from an employer that did not withhold Social Security taxes.<\/p>\n<div>These changes are effective for benefits payable after December 2023.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><i>The <strong>Social Security Fairness Act of 2023<\/strong> was signed into law today.\u00a0 President Biden also state Social Security Department will be mailing a payment not paid in 2024 to those involved.<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 This bill repeals provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for individuals who receive other benefits, such as a pension from a state or local government. The bill eliminates the government pension offset, which in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/uncategorized\/social-security-fairness-act-of-2023-signed-into-law-152025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}