Bills/Acts/Background

• The Public Servant Retirement Protection Act (PDF)
  A worker is “covered” by Social Security if he or she pays into Social Security through the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) payroll tax. Currently 96% of all workers are covered by Social Security. The majority of noncovered positions are held by federal, state, and local government employees.
  
  The current-law Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) reduces the Social Security retirement or disability benefits of workers who also receive a pension from employment not covered by Social Security. The goal of the WEP was to remove an unintended advantage that the regular Social Security benefit formula provided to employees who divided their careers between covered and non-covered positions. As of December 2006, approximately 971,300 beneficiaries (approximately 2% of the entire beneficiary population at that time) had their benefits reduced as a result of the current-law WEP.
  
  
• Government Pension Offset(GPO)/Windfall Elimination Provision(WEP)
  • Social Security: The Government Pension Offset (GPO) (PDF)
    (Congressional Research Service)
    
  • Social Security: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) (PDF)
    (Congressional Research Service)
  • Roundup of GPO-WEP Bills Introduced in the 110th Congress (PDF)
    (National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association)