Together, WEP and GPO affect nearly 3 million Americans including police officers, firefighters, postal workers and public-school teachers.   The number of payments SSA has made is a tiny fraction of the millions of Americans who may be entitled to bigger Social Security checks,

More than 3.2 million Social Security recipients who received pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public service jobs will see an immediate boost in their benefits.