The Social Security Fairness Act increased benefits for 3.2 million retirees and their spouses. Affected seniors will see their monthly benefit amount adjusted and they may be eligible for a one-time ...

The WEP reduced Social Security benefits for people with pensions from jobs that didn’t pay into Social Security. The GPO cut spousal or survivor benefits for those with government pensions from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has processed over 2.5 million retroactive payments for teachers, firefighters, police ...

Applying California law, a federal district court has held that a policy’s retroactive date exclusion bars coverage even if the harm caused by the wrongful acts materializes after the retroactive date ...

A federal district court, applying California law, has determined that an insurer owed a duty to defend because the policy’s retroactive date exclusion was ambiguous in that it could reasonably be ...

The Social Security Fairness Act has already resulted in retroactive payments for some. Now, a new legislative push could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first wave of Social Security claims resulting from the Social Security Fairness Act signed into law on Jan. 5 has been ...

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 ...

Before I get to today’s questions, all of which deal with claiming retroactive benefits, I must make this general point: The law says you can claim up to six months’ worth of retroactive benefits, as ...

Several senators are calling on the Social Security Administration to reconsider what they say is a flaw in the implementation of the law.