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The Windfall Elimination Provision (abbreviated WEP [1]) was a statutory provision in United States law [2] which affects benefits paid by the Social Security Administration under Title II of the Social Security Act. It reduced the Primary Insurance Amount (PIA) of a person's Retirement Insurance Benefits (RIB) or Disability Insurance Benefits ...
Under the WEP, Social Security benefits are reduced if you receive a pension from work, did not pay into Social Security, and had fewer than 30 years of “substantial” employment or covered ...
Because Social Security tax receipts and interest exceed payments, the program also reduces the size of the annual federal budget deficit commonly reported in the media. For example, CBO reported that for fiscal year 2012, the "On-budget Deficit" was $1,151.3 billion. Social Security and the Post Office are considered "Off-Budget".
Discretionary spending outlays will be reduced from $1,285.3 billion in 2012 to $1,213.9 billion in 2013, a reduction of $71.4 billion or 5.6%. Discretionary spending will fall again to $1,170.0 billion in 2014, a decrease of $42.8 billion or 3.6%.
Unless lawmakers come up with a plan to deal with Social Security's looming funding shortfall, retirees will likely see a reduction in benefits in about a decade. That reduction could be especially...
Millions of older Americans could see a 21% reduction in their Social Security benefits in 2034 if federal lawmakers don’t act quickly. However, Congressional lawmakers are at odds about what to ...
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (often called Simpson–Bowles or Bowles–Simpson from the names of co-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles; or NCFRR) was a bipartisan Presidential Commission on deficit reduction, [1] created in 2010 by President Barack Obama to identify "policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve fiscal ...
Social security benefits were reduced by two-thirds of the non-covered government pension amount. [1] Note this is not two-thirds of the Social Security benefit; for example, a $600 non-covered pension benefit would reduce Social Security spousal benefits by $400, regardless of whether the spouse was entitled to $500 or $1000 on the Social Security record of the number holder.