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The first round of April’s Social Security payments, worth up to $5,108 for the highest-income earners who retire at 70, will go out to the first group of retirees in five days. Social Security payments typically begin on the second Wednesday of every month,

April marks the first month that boosted benefits will be paid out to those who were formally impacted by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). These were both repealed by an act of Congress in January this year.