The Social Security Fairness Act of 2025 eliminated the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), restoring full benefits to 3.2 million public-sector retirees, and retroactively applied to January 2024, resulting in one-time retroactive payments.
Many beneficiaries received significant lump sums and higher monthly payments,
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Feb. 26 could be a huge day for the stock market. Depending on how large the news is, one company may steer the market one direction or another based on what it says. The company I’m talking about is none other than Nvidia (NVDA +0.94%),
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US Supreme Court decision on Trump’s tariffs: The US Supreme Court struck down the reciprocal tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump administration on its trading partners. Hours after this US Supreme Court decision on tariffs, US President Donald Trump signed off on a 10% global tariff on all countries.
This energy stock is bullish about its prospects in 2026.
Poised to end the week on a positive note, shares of Forum Energy Technologies (FET +8.32%) are ripping higher today following the company, a provider of various goods to the energy industry,
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Social Security primarily provides income to retirees. But the program also offers benefits to some people who may have never worked or still be employed. We’re talking about the survivors of Social Security recipients, including spouses and dependents.
“Survivor benefits provide monthly payments to eligible family members of people who worked and paid Social Security taxes before they died,” according to the Social Security Administration (SSA).
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Every time the phone rings, Erik Daley can practically hear private equity coming for America’s 401(k)s.
The line has been ringing a lot lately at his modest consulting business in Portland, Oregon. For at least the past year he’s been getting a half-dozen calls a week from private equity and other firms interested in his company,
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Short-term turbulence in the stock market can be enough to make novice investors nauseous, but veterans like Warren Buffett say it’s all part of the game.
(Bloomberg) — A noisy, unsettled Wall Street is doing what years of simply owning the index rarely has: made the smart money look smart again.
In a market rattled by tariff whiplash, AI disruption fears,
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