His benefits stop upon his death unless have benifits plan that he paid into for you?

Civilian employees always get Better deal than enlisted service members has do with numbers and who in charge benifits rules.

Won’t get nothing until you reach retirement age. It shouldn’t because you paid into FURS which separate retirement, you wife will only get pension if you selected survive benifits based on how much you paid into to for 360 months (i think) based on how much she gets. Furs shouldn’t affect her SS be benifits

This is named the Social Security Fairness Act.
WEP and GPO was only enacted in 15 states. By repealing these punitive laws public employees in all 50 states are now all treated the same.
My husband paid the maximum into Social Security his entire career. He collected SS for two years but sadly died at 67. Because of WEP and GPO I never received another dime, because my pension as a retired teacher was somewhat more than his Social Security. I know many women who stayed home and never worked. When their husbands were alive their household collected two Social Security checks. After his death, the widow collects the larger amount. Now that these acts are repealed, I, too, will receive the widows benefits.
No one will be getting two Social Security checks. As an Ohio teacher, my Ohio pension is through the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System. That is what I paid into and that is where my retirement checks come from. Fire fighters, police officers, and many public servants also receive their pensions from other State Plans. If this household also is fully vested in Social Security then they are entitled to receive a benefit.
This act corrects an injustice to public servants in 15 states. Congress has been working on it since 2003. It is called the
Social Security FAIRNESS Act and was supported by Biden and Trump. Long, long overdue.

Let's think about it this way. Let's say the deductions from your wife's pay as a teacher went to SS instead of to the state agency. She would then be eligible to collect SS retirement benefits on her time as a teacher.

Then she left that job and continued as you wrote, working and contributing to SS again. If fact, she worked enough under this job to qualify again for SS.

Should she be able to collect two SS checks? (If so, I am due for three)

Clearly the answer is no. Her SS benefit would be calculated on the totality of her time paying into SS. She would receive one benefit from SS even though she contributed twice.

So how is the current situation any different? Instead of putting any money at all into SS it was put into a parallel program. Now when her SS benefit is calculated the system looks at the totality of her time paying SS but also takes into consideration the benefit she is receiving from the program that was used IN PLACE OF SS.

She was allowed to avoid paying into SS during that teacher's job because she would be collecting benefits from that program rather than SS. Now that she changed her mind and decided to pay into SS also, the system says fine, collect the benefits IN PLACE OF SS and we'll also allow you to collect SS but only after recalculating for those "IN PLACE OF" benefits.

NOTE: These reductions only apply to pensions received from programs where NO SS WAS PAID.

NOTE 2: These reductions do not apply to most (any?) private pension systems because those systems did not exempt employees from paying SS taxes. (this is consistent with the govt's CSRS and FERS systems. CSRS did not pay into SS and the reductions apply. FERS DOES pay into SS and no reductions apply)

NOTE 3: The WEP system applies to her SS benefits only. Survivor benefits are (were) restricted by GPO. Similar idea though I haven't looked into whether there is an exact parallel with collecting both SS and SS survivor.

I give exactly ZERO weight to the name of any act. The only thing that surprises me is that they haven't come up with an eight-word title for that has "FAIRNESS" as an acronym. Names are chosen for marketing purposes.

Explain the repeal of WEP and GPO. People who worked as Civil Service Employees...Firefighters, Police, Teachers, USPS and other jobs...paid into Civil Service Pension and not into Social Security...However 2.7 million of those people (the ones people always praise for their job) also worked at other jobs before during or after their Civil Service time and earned the needed 40 quarters to receive a monthly payment. Example: I worked USPS and my "second job" was a company maybe you heard of them U.S. Army. During my career at USPS..I would leave for time to time for training or war. Desert Storm, Somalia, Bosnia and Afghanistan(injured), a year each time. During my times away from USPS, I was not paid by them (understandable) and they listed me as "unavailable for work" and USPS stopped any benefits for my family until my return to work. When I filed for my SS they cut check it half 50% because of my Civil Service Pension. Wait, it gets better. Then a few years later, when my wife (Civil Service Employee) filed for SS, they took 50% from her check ...then they took another 50% because her husband..me..was a Civil Service Retiree. So, she gets $0.00. Thank you for working two or three jobs...Thank you for your service.... Really??? This WEP bill will fix a 40 year wrong (1983) .... People may not like it, but we earned it, this is not a handout. As a four-time Combat Veteran any negative comments about my explanation will prove that "Thank you for your service" has a hollow ring to it.

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On GPO, you are entirely correct. As to WEP, it is a bit more complicated. Social Security benefits are “weighted “ so that low income wage earners get a higher replacement ratio for earnings lost due to retirement than a high income earner. In assessing the return ratio someone who has a short record of covered earnings, but enough to be insured, is indistinguishable from one who had a long record of low wages. Both get the higher weighted replacement ratio. The replacement ratio varies from 50% for someone who worked for minimum wage for their working lifetime, to 29% for someone with maximum covered earnings for a lifetime.
Where WEP went wrong was for the people who worked for both covered and exempt earnings, but for low wages in both. They got screwed.

In D.C., it is very common for a LT Colonel or above to line up a GS-15 civilian position before they retire, and step right into that position immediately. In some offices, it is a waste of time for a career civilian employee to even apply for the position because the office is managed and controlled by military retirees.

You’ve got that right.
I have a good friend,Mary, who never worked a day in her life. She receives SS from her ex-spouse. He married two more times. When George died all three wives received an increase in benefits, to George’s amount.
Mary’s next relationship was with Bill. He was a retired teacher, and received his benefits through the State Teachers Retirement Plan. Although they weren’t married, Bill named Mary as beneficiary.
Upon his death, she began receiving his full amount.
I had a 33 year career as a teacher, and because of WEP/GPO I could not collect my deceased husbands SS. Mary never worked a day in her life, she collects two monthly checks, and her retirement income is more than double of mine.

This is some of the inequality that the SS Fairness Act addresses.

Are you sure you were fully vested in your retirement plan after 8 years? More than 10 was required for us.

I worked hard, long hours, and extra jobs to earn additional quarters - who do I talk to about receiving the three SS checks that I have jobs and quarters for?

Those affected by WEP and GPO are not being "punished" at all, they are/were simply NOT being rewarded for avoiding SS taxes for half of their careers. They were not chosen simply because those jobs were in the public sector, public service and not for a profit-driven company. They were chosen because the DID NOT PAY SS taxes in those jobs.

One of my jobs was in the public sector, public service and not for a profit-driven company. I still receive both a pension and (soon) SS retirement. This is the case because I DID PAY SS taxes in that job.

EXAMPLE: Here is what happened to me. I worked in the private sector before working for the postal service. Once I turned 66, i began collecting my full social security benefits. Once I retired from the postal service I was told they would be cutting my social security benefits by 50%. Now with new bill that passed last week I will be collecting my full social security benefits finally after so many years of only getting half of what I actually earned through social security.