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Organizations representing federal employees and retirees are hopeful that a controversial tax rule that limits the Social Security benefits of former feds who have spent time in the private sector could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to two bills making their way through Congress.
The windfall elimination provision reduces the Social Security benefits of retired federal, state and local government employees who worked in private sector jobs in addition to a government job where Social Security is not intended as an element of their retirement income, like employees in the Civil Service Retirement System.