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As far as I can tell, SocialSecurity.tools doesn't have a way to account for the Windfall Elimination Provision (which applies when a person has a pension from work that wasn't covered by Social Security tax) when calculating a person's PIA.
The rules aren't terribly complicated. Basically, before applying the PIA formula (i.e., 90% of X, plus 32% of Y, plus 15% of Z) you count how many years of Social-Security-covered "substantial earnings" they've had. Then, the 90% figure in the PIA formula gets replaced with a different figure.
If you have 20 or fewer years with substantial earnings, the figure used will be 40% instead of 90%.
For each year of substantial earnings beyond 20, the figure increases by 5% (until you reach the original 90% figure).
The year-by-year thresholds for substantial earnings can be found here: https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10045.pdf
But then there's one catch: The WEP will never reduce your PIA by more than 50% of your monthly pension from non-covered work.
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Add text to one of the FAQ entries calling out the limitations with
respect to:
- Special Extra Earnings for Military Service #186
- Windfall Elimination Provision #94
This does not actually resolve#186 or #94, it just calls them out as
sources of error in the text.
… (#187)
Add text to one of the FAQ entries calling out the limitations with
respect to:
- Special Extra Earnings for Military Service #186
- Windfall Elimination Provision #94
This does not actually resolve#186 or #94, it just calls them out as
sources of error in the text.
From @MikePiper:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: