The Social Security Fairness Act ends both the WEP and the government pension offset, increasing the Social Security checks for more than 2 million retired public servants.

The Social Security Fairness Act repeals WEP and GPO, two provisions that reduce or eliminate Social Security benefits for certain federal annuitants.

MITCHELL: The U.S. Social Security system faces insolvency within just a few years, by 2033; after that, retiree benefits cannot be paid in full, unless the system is reformed. This Act is projected to hasten the system’s insolvency date by about half a year.

President Biden has signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees.

Current and former public sector workers in Massachusetts are hailing the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act.

According to Joe Elsasser, a certified financial planner and the founder and president of Covisum, the law could result in a substantial wave of new Social Security claims by people at all stages of retirement — particularly those who would have had spousal benefits reduced to $0 by the Government Pension Offset.

President Joe Biden signed a bill on Sunday that will repeal two laws previously preventing many public employees from receiving Social Security benefits.