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.

Bills in Congress

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

HR 4540

A bill that attempts to fix problems caused by Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP).