SSA Fairness act.
I’m retired and my wife is a retired school teacher. We applied for the ssa fairness act last March. The person from ssa told us that ssa would call us on May 19th. They were right on time. The first representative told my wife and I that we would get half of my SSA benefit and retroactive pay from March to June. I had told him that we should get 6 months of retroactive pay instead of three months. He said i was wrong. Received a letter in the mail like the representative said we would explaining our benefits. Called SSA again this time the representative said that if we were to receive the retroactive pay that would reduce our monthly check from SSA. I truly believe that we should be getting retroactive pay for six months. Am I right or wrong. Thanks you.
Terry Says
Honestly, I don’t quite understand your situation. You don’t “apply” for the Fairness Act. It is automatically applied to the benefits of those receiving reduced payments. Now, if your wife hadn’t previously applied for Social Security, she doesn’t receive the “windfall” payment back to Jan 2024 — only since the time she applied.
Assuming she qualified based on her own (outside of teaching) SS quarters, she should receive her full benefit earned — OR half of yours, whichever is larger.
If you want to know the correct answer, please go to www.MaximizeMySocialsecurity.com and it will do the calculations for you — based on both your records! The $49 cost could be well worth it!
