Together, WEP and GPO affect nearly 3 million Americans including police officers, firefighters, postal workers and public-school teachers.   The number of payments SSA has made is a tiny fraction of the millions of Americans who may be entitled to bigger Social Security checks,

The Social Security Administration is expediting Social Security Fairness Act benefits. Retroactive payments will begin "immediately".

The Social Security Administration is making progress dealing with benefit hikes for public-sector workers with "non-covered pensions."