Social Security Fairness Act Delayed payment
Can it really be that those of us who DID NOT get our lump-sum WEP retroactive refund by 3-31-2025 may have to wait until NOVEMBER of 2025 to get our refund? That’s what it said on the SSA homepage today! You’ve gotta be kidding me!
Terry Says
Yes — thanks for alerting me to the update. I’ll post it for all to see! Here’s what they just said:
We have been able to expedite payments using automation. For the many complex cases that cannot be processed automatically, additional time is required to manually update the records and pay both retroactive benefits and the new benefits amount. We are expediting these cases now. We are releasing retroactive benefits and sending new monthly benefit amounts as we process each case, with the expectation that all beneficiary records will be updated by early November 2025.
Remember, this is not all cases — just those that are “complex” cases — whatever that means!
