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Floor Vote on WEP-GPO Repeal Imminent: Odds Appear in Favor of Passage
It looks like the issue of “fairness” in the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) segments of the Social Security rulebook will receive a final Senate vote in the closing hours of the current session. Andrew Biggs, Forbes contributor and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, offers conjecture on this likely passage in a post today on forbes.com. Biggs’ post, which you can read in full here, uses examples of GPO’s effect on spousal benefits to explain how this provision works.