Social Security: The Government Pension Offset
Description:
This report discusses the Government Pension Offset (GPO) provision, which reduces Social Security benefits that a person receives as a spouse if he or she also has a government pension based on work that was not covered by Social Security. Its purpose is to replicate Social Security’s “dual entitlement” rule, which requires that a Social Security benefit earned as a worker be subtracted from any Social Security spousal benefit to which the worker is eligible. Its intent is to remove an advant…
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Date:
February 13, 2003
Creator:
Kollmann, Geoffrey
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department