India, May 17 -- The Social Security Fairness Act has seen some recent changes, including providing retroactive benefits and increasing monthly benefit payments to people whose benefits have been affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO).

The Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law on January 5, 2025. According to the SSA's official site, this law increases Social Security benefits for certain types of workers, including:

This act does away with the windfall programme which reduced the Social Security benefits for those who receive a pension based on work that was not covered by Social Security, especially because they did not pay Social Security taxes.

It is not necessary that ev...