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.



