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) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) deprive 2.5 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.

Take Action!

Support strong public schools by taking these actions today.

Support the Social Security Fairness Act (S. 521/H.R. 141)

The Social Security Fairness Act would repeal the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) that unfairly deprive 2.5 million Americans of the Social Security benefits they have earned—educators, police officers, firefighters, and other employees of state and local governments who dedicate their lives to public service.

Email your members of Congress and tell them to cosponsor and support the Social Security Fairness Act.

Support the Social Security 2100 Act (H.R. 860)

The Social Security 2100 Act would increase benefits across the board, calculate annual cost-of-living adjustments for seniors more accurately, and increase the minimum benefit to ensure that low-earning workers do not retire into poverty.

Email your members of Congress and tell them to support the Social Security 2100 Act.