If you wait to file for your Social Security retirement benefits until after age 67, you may be able to claim retroactive payments. However, things have changed since 2016, when Congress changed the ...

More than 1.1 million people with public pensions — teachers, firefighters, police officers and the like — have recently received retroactive benefits due to the Social Security Fairness Act, the ...

The Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law by then-President Joe Biden on Jan. 5. This act repeals two provisions–the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset–that have ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has processed over 2.5 million retroactive payments for teachers, firefighters, police officers and others with public pensions who were previously locked out ...

Retroactive or back pay refers to income owed to an employee from a previous pay period. Retroactive pay may happen for a number of reasons, such as incorrect salary compensation or wages for hours ...