Key Takeaways President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law on Sunday after the Senate passed the bill with bipartisan support in December.The new law eliminates two provisions—the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)—that reduced Social Security benefits for public sector workers who

For the past half-century, union officials representing these groups have been pressuring Congress to eliminate WEP because they wrongly think the law cheats their members out of Social Security benefits they are due. In each of those years, a bill to eliminate WEP has failed to get approved.