Re: Social Security Penalty
Social Security's Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) have been in effect since the Reagan administration, maybe longer, but at least 40+ years. Every year the national FOP gets someone in congress to introduce a bill to repeal them, and everyone else in congress rushes to add their names to the bill as co-sponsors. Then this bill is "referred to a committee" and is never heard from again. That way every member of congress can tell you that they tried to repeal these parts of Social Security, so don't blame them. At this particular point, the current majority party in the House of Representatives was in favor of eliminating Social Security entirely, until Biden's most recent State of the Union address.
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