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Columbus Acquisition Corp Ordinary SharesColumbus Acquisition Corp Ordinary SharesCongress repealed the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset, restoring full Social Security benefits to roughly 2 million public workers and issuing retroactive payments back to January 2024. The Government Pension Offset eliminated survivor benefits entirely for nearly 70% of its 717,000 affected beneficiaries, so firefighter widows who never filed should apply at ssa.gov now. The repeal reshapes pension survivor election math, since spouses can now stack full Social Security survivor benefits on top of pension continuation payments. Firefighters are heavily represented among the roughly 28% of state and local public employees not covered by Social Security, and most still need to reset their retirement math. The Social Security Administration is adjusting monthly checks going forward, and the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment of 2.8% will apply to a now-larger base benefit.