Social Security benefits are crucial for retirees, but a mixed work history can complicate matters. Learn how the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) affect your ...

Navigating the complexities of a mixed work history is crucial for understanding potential reductions in Social Security ...

I recently bought a Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b access point. It does not appear to support shared key authentication, although it does support 40-bit and 128-bit WEP for data encryption. So, whether ...

The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, which had reduced benefits for those with non-covered pensions. Retroactive payments ...

How insecure is Wired Equivalent Privacy? The short answer is that Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is badly broken and only fit for a few low-security uses. Wireless ...

Retirement planning can be complex, especially when navigating Social Security intricacies like the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). Dana Anspach, CEO of ...

Congress tried to eliminate windfall benefits for workers who had been exempt from Social Security contributions for part of their career by enacting the Government Pension Offset (GPO) in 1977 and ...

Starting the week of Feb. 24, 2025, SSA is beginning to pay retroactive benefits and will increase monthly benefit payments to people whose benefits have been affected by the WEP and GPO. Social ...

Ah, the joys of aging: seeing friends who haven’t laid eyes on you in a few months or even years and hearing, “Geez, you’ve certainly got a lot of gray hair.” That’s always a mood booster. Then I ...

I just got a new AP (Dlink DWL900+) and it's going fine so far. I had trouble with WEP until I realised that the Orinoco mini pci card in my laptop (samsung gt9000) only supports 64bit wep. I did some ...