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Social Security says it's paid more than 1 million retroactive payments. Here's the average amount.

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More than 1.1 million people with public pensions — teachers, firefighters, police officers and the like — have recently received retroactive benefits due to the Social Security Fairness Act .

The law's elimination of two policies that barred employees with a public pension from collecting their full benefits under the federal retirement program.

Those same policies also reduced benefits for such workers' surviving spouses and family members.

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