Windfall Elimination Provision, USA Social Security

This is a tool to help retirees affected by the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). WEP mostly affects public servants like teachers and firefighters, and can mean a reduction in SSA benefits of up to 50%. This tool will help affected workers, and anyone with a social security card, better plan retirement and self-advocate with the Social Security administration.

What is inside?

• SSACalculator.org App for best user experience on tablets, ideally pursued with a case worker.
• Official MySocialSecurity.org earnings record PDF scraping using PDF.js (and official XML format parsing)
• Typescript type checking to ensure matching types between replicated SSA algorithms and Gatsby/React.
• Tests to compare output of known documented examples to the Microsoft Windows-based Social Security Detailed Calculator.
• AnyPIAJS and PiaFormat.ts allowing use of the (originally Windows-based) Social Security Detailed Calculator from within this app, without any sending data away from the user's browser.
• Observable WEP calculation Prototype - The earlier, alpha version of the calculator's math: from Feb 2019.

Join the Slack channel #windfall-elimination for more information.

Installation

Use git clone command with SSH. Run npm install && npm start to launch the project.

• To turn on feature toggle that enables features.

  • In Windows, run $env:<feature keyword> = 'true'; npm start
  • In Mac and Linux, run <feature keyword>=true npm start

• Feature keyword list

  • GATSBY_SHOW_FUTURE_EARNINGS_PAGE : show future earnings page in left side bar and main page
  • GATSBY_SCROLL_WHEN_FINISH : scroll down when finish each step in prescreen-1b