A Social Security-related bill with bipartisan support would expand benefits for workers who are also eligible for other pensions.

Would provide long overdue fairness to police officers, firefighters, educators and government employees who start second careers before or during retirement.

Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves' bill would eliminate the Social Security penalty for 2.8 million government retirees, including 90,000 in Louisiana.

Millions of public-sector workers are affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed, 327-75, legislation that would repeal Social Security’s windfall elimination provision (WEP) and government pension offset (GPO) — tax provisions that negatively impact some federal retirees’ annuity benefits.