SSA employees don’t always caution potential benefits filers who would be affected by the “government pension offset”—including many of those who retire under the CSRS system—about the GPO’s potential impact on their benefits and how they could lessen that impact, an i...
Offset: Government pension offset (GPO) October 7, 2018 There is a number of offsets which could reduce social security payments, including: (1) Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), (2) Government Pension Offset (GPO), (3) Workers’ Compensation and Public Disability Benefit and (4) Treasury...