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Elininate the Windfall Elimination Provision

Created by D.H. on January 15, 2014

The Windfall Elimination Provision affects how the amount of your retirement or disability benefit is calculated if you receive a pension from work where Social Security taxes were not taken out of your pay. So, if you worked in a job and paid your Social Security taxes, and then work in another job where you do not pay into Social Security, but pay into a retirement account, the government can take part of your Social Security (your money) because they consider this double dipping. But if you worked for a company and paid Social Security then retire, you can collect both your Social Security and retirement without a penalty. This does not seem fair! If Social Security was paid into, then it should not be touched. People should get what they paid without penalty.

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