{"id":25738,"date":"2025-01-05T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=25738"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:01:09","slug":"bipartisan-bill-championed-by-sen-ossoff-becomes-law-to-increase-retirement-benefits-for-georgia-teachers-first-responders","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/bipartisan-bill-championed-by-sen-ossoff-becomes-law-to-increase-retirement-benefits-for-georgia-teachers-first-responders\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Bill Championed by Sen. Ossoff Becomes Law to Increase Retirement Benefits for Georgia Teachers & First Responders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C<\/strong>. \u2014A bipartisan bill championed by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff to increase retirement benefits for Georgia teachers and first responders is now law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the Social Security Fairness Act,<\/em><\/a> which will increase Social Security benefits for public employees like teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill was signed into law today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bipartisan law repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduce or eliminate regular Social Security benefits for workers and their eligible family members if the worker receives or is entitled to a pension based on earnings from employment not covered by Social Security, including for many public employees like teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to WSB-TV Atlanta<\/a>, the bipartisan law will restore Social Security benefits for over 50,000 Georgians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEducators, firefighters, and law enforcement officers already make huge sacrifices for our state and aren\u2019t in it for the money \u2014 it makes no sense to unfairly reduce their Social Security benefits,\u201d Sen. Ossoff said<\/strong>. \u201cThat\u2019s why I worked to successfully pass into law the bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act<\/em> to repeal these unfair policies that risk hurting teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement officers and ensure these public servants receive the Social Security benefits they\u2019ve earned through their work.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Social Security Fairness Act <\/em>has received widespread support from educators\u2019 unions, first responders<\/a>and law enforcement organizations, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to improve quality of life for Georgia\u2019s public servants and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, a\u00a0bipartisan bill<\/a>\u00a0backed by Sen. Ossoff that reauthorizes grant funding for law enforcement family support services and establishes suicide prevention programs and mental health services for law enforcement officers passed the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff also introduced the bipartisan HELPER Act<\/em><\/a> alongside Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to help first responders, teachers and law enforcement officers buy their first home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014A bipartisan bill championed by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff to increase retirement benefits for Georgia teachers and first responders is now law. Last month, Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the Social Security Fairness Act, which will increase Social Security benefits for public employees like teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement officers. The […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25738","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/25738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/25738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25746,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/25738\/revisions\/25746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}