Me, too. They should never have set up the 30 year & retire policy. Even for police & fire-fighters. The fact that you may be too old for a physically demanding job doesn’t mean you can’t find something else to do after that career. Retirement age for all public employees should be 65, & if you can no longer meet the demands of your current job, you move on to something else & collect the pension later.
I also think they should have to choose between pension & SS. That would partially solve another problem we’re going to have to deal with.
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Taxpayers grab their ankles for both. What's the difference?
I don't know what it is like now, but in California when my husband taught there 1961 to 1979 they did not pay into SS. So all they had was the teachers retirement.