Team’s reporting on the millions of Americans who rely on benefits from the Social Security Administration to make ends meet.

It would mean larger Social Security payments for almost 3 million recipients but will cost $194 billion and likely drain ...

Both provisions would be repealed by the bill, thereby increasing Social Security payments for many. The budgetary effect of ...

WASHINGTON - The House has passed legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people, pushing ...

The reason is the “Windfall Elimination Provision,” which sharply reduces the earnings for calculating his Social Security benefit because of his public employee pension. “The only thing we ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, introduced by Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Virginia Democrat, and Rep. Garrett Graves, a Louisiana Republican, would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision ...

For years, public workers have received reduced Social Security benefits because of two provisions in the Social Security Act: 1983’s Windfall Elimination Provision and 1977’s Government ...

That’s when he told us about the letter the Social Security Administration sent him that he was overpaid $7,500 because of the Windfall Elimination Provision. The government reduced his monthly ...

The US House of Representatives passed Social Security Fairness Act with a bipartisan vote of 327-75. The bill aims to ...