[tired&retired]

"Just FYI: if you worked for the federal government and qualify for a pension, and you have enough quarters of outside employment to qualify for Social Security, and you wait to take Social Security until benefits max at age 70, you can receive both earned pensions."

I had tax clients who were retired military, then worked for US Gov't, then worked for defense contractors..

They collected military pension, government pension, private pension and social security.

[MSF BU]

Military members pay into social security, so they have that in any case. A postal employee who does twenty years in the National Guard would qualify for all three programs.