Exemptions to the Government Pension Offset (GPO) |  |  |
Exemptions to GPO provisions apply in the following particular situations:
- Any State, local, or military service employee whose government pension is based on a job where he or she was paying Social Security taxes on the last day of employment. (Some government entities not initially covered by Social Security chose to participate at a later date.)
- Anyone whose government pension is not based on his or her own earnings.
- Anyone who received or who was eligible to receive a government pension before December 1982 and who meets all the requirements for a Social Security spouse benefit in effect in January 1977.
More exemptions follow . . .
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