The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced the payment of billions of dollars to more than 1 million Americans after two provisions that reduced or eliminated benefits for certain people were recently repealed.
On Feb. 25, the agency said that it will start paying retroactive payments to people whose benefits have been affected by the windfall elimination provision (WEP) and government pension offset (GPO). Through March 4, “SSA has already paid 1,127,723 people more than $7.5 billion in retroactive payments,” the agency said in a March 4 statement. “The average retroactive payment so far is $6,710.”
