The Social Security Administration on March 5 shared its significant progress to quickly implement the Social Security Fairness Act. Through March 4, 2025, SSA has already paid 1,127,723 people more than $7.

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminated the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The WEP applied to retirement benefits while the GPO applied to spousal benefits,

While many have already received their payments, millions more are still waiting as the SSA continues processing remaining retroactive payments.

Millions of retirees collecting Social Security benefits will receive their payments later this week. The Social Security Administration (SSA) distributes billions in benefits every month to nearly 70 million recipients,