I'd look for an IOU in lieu of income tax refund before they actually put hurts on public retirees.
After all; it's future govt. pensioners who make the decisions and make the system "work".
Oh, it "works" alright. See this related article on the whole corrupt system:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/05/us-usa-illinois-authorities-taxes-specia-idUSKCN0QA1IN20150805
This is equally disgusting:
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/chaos-in-cairo/article_2dcf027e-e465-552a-a71f-fd8085941b6e.html
(Sorry, I can't seem to make the hyperlinks "live" when I have other HTML in the post, like italics.)