Thanks to the Social Security Fairness Act, some CT retirees will receive retroactive payments. A boost to monthly checks starts in April. Get Connecticut public policy news at your fingertips.

About 708,000 people in Connecticut — about 20% of the state’s population — receive benefits, according to December 2022 data from the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Since late February, the federal agency said it has processed about 75% of adjustments related to the Social Security Fairness Act. “Social Security’s aggressive schedule to start issuing retroactive ...

I would like to join my U.S. Rep. John Larson, as well as Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, and Rep. Jahana Hayes, as well as 100 congressional democrats, who have expressed in a letter ...