The Social Security Fairness Act provides retroactive payments for those affected by WEP and GPO. Here’s a step-by-step guide ...

I was reading a presentation slide from here and its pretty informative but there are some things i just don't get so i'm pretty much lost reading it.<BR><BR>what do they mean by XOR? how does<BR>if ...

The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) historically reduced Social Security retirement or disability benefits for individuals who also received a pension from employment not covered by Social ...

I recently bought a Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b access point. It does not appear to support shared key authentication, although it does support 40-bit and 128-bit WEP for data encryption. So, whether ...

How insecure is Wired Equivalent Privacy? The short answer is that Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is badly broken and only fit for a few low-security uses. Wireless ...

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, which had reduced benefits for those with non-covered pensions. Retroactive payments ...

Editor's note: A correction was made to this story to clarify that non-covered workers did not pay Social Security taxes on their pensions, according to the SSA website. On Jan. 5, former President ...

Congress tried to eliminate windfall benefits for workers who had been exempt from Social Security contributions for part of their career by enacting the Government Pension Offset (GPO) in 1977 and ...

Ah, the joys of aging: seeing friends who haven’t laid eyes on you in a few months or even years and hearing, “Geez, you’ve certainly got a lot of gray hair.” That’s always a mood booster. Then I ...