The Social Security Fairness Act ends both the WEP and the government pension offset, increasing the Social Security checks for more than 2 million retired public servants.

The Social Security Fairness Act repeals WEP and GPO, two provisions that reduce or eliminate Social Security benefits for certain federal annuitants.

Roger Boudreau didn’t know his Social Security benefit was going to be slashed for being a teacher with a pension until after he retired.  He had waited until his full retirement age to claim benefits,