Retirement Security

Social Security

Government Pension Offset (GPO)

Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP)

Pensions

We deserve the benefits we’ve paid for

Protecting pensions and Social Security ensures retired educators can live with dignity.

NEA supports protecting Medicare and preserving Social Security.

The GPO reduces the Social Security spousal or survivor benefits of people not covered by Social Security themselves.

The Government Pension Offset (GPO) affects 695,000 and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) deprive 1.9 million hard-working Americans of Social Security benefits they have earned.

The WEP reduces the Social Security benefits of people who work in jobs covered by Social Security and jobs NOT covered by Social Security—for example, educators who take part-time jobs to make ends meet.

Most of the people hurt by the GPO and WEP are public servants: educators, police officers, firefighters, and other employees of state and local governments.

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Your Priorities for Washington

We have an enormous task ahead of us as we deal with the coronavirus and its lasting effects on our students, families, and communities. But that’s not all. We need to restore trust, repair damage to civil rights, increase funding to our schools, and so much more. Tell us what you think the White House and Congress should prioritize in the months ahead.

Bills in Congress

HR 82

This bill would fully repeal the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP).

HR 3934

A bill to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) that deprives educators and other public servants of Social Security benefits they have earned; the bill does not address the Government Pension Offset (GPO).

S 3401