What is the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP)?
As it is right now, he gets a very small pension from a corn processing company he worked for before going in the military and serving in the Air Force for 4 years (also paying Social Security), and also after he got out and reclaimed his job there. The government does not reduce his government pension because it’s a private pension fund through Kraft. Before he ever hired on with the government, he had fully paid his 40 quarters for Social Security benefits. From 1981 to 2008 my husband worked for the Federal Government as a civil servant with the Dept. of Defense paying into his government pension each paycheck. Right now, he is only 60 years old and so not old enough to begin collecting social security, but he is collecting his government pension. He was in the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). Now, here’s where it also cuts to the quick. I was a stay-at-home mom, and haven’t worked enough in my lifetime to pay into Social Security. At this point, I’m disabled with fibromyalgi
