Maybe they should just stop worrying about alleged windfalls and just provide the SS that they would get from the jobs that collected FICA. No adjustments either up or down.
“The Social Security Fairness Act also required backdated payments to January 2023 to be made to all recipients. The SSA confirmed that these have already been paid.”
This is fake news. A few weeks ago I received a letter from SSA saying I would receive my lump sum back payments on 20 March. I just rechecked my bank balance and.... Still Nope.
That is literally exactly what they did by eliminating the WEP.