Browse 3 Gruv blog articles tagged Foreign Pension. Coverage includes Tax Residency & Compliance and Payment Protection & Finance. Practical guides, examples, and checklists for cross-border payments, tax, compliance, invoicing, and global operations.
simple. GPO and WEP are no longer the main problem. Your job now is to confirm your own benefit status with SSA, because the fix is not the same for everyone and you should not assume every case was corrected automatically.
**Short answer:** WEP no longer reduces your own Social Security benefit calculation for benefits payable from January 2024 onward. That can matter if you worked in a job tied to a foreign social security system or another pension arrangement where Social Security taxes were not withheld.
A proof of life certificate is a routine check with real consequences. Your pension provider is asking you to confirm that you are alive and still eligible for payment. If you miss the deadline or use the wrong process, payments can be paused.