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In reply to the discussion: Illinois lawmakers approve major pension overhaul [View all]upaloopa
(11,417 posts)29. If someone worked under a contract that had
a pension plan and did the required amount of time, they deserve the retirement benefits even if they get another job.
You have to work 30 some years to get a retirement that is about equal to your salary.
If you started at 20 yrs old you could retire in your 50's and still be young enough to get another job.
That is not double dipping that is playing by the rules and is good life planning.
Your playing that old wedge issue politics again. You don't have it so nobody should.
Your just sorry you didn't have the smarts to plan your life that well.
Don't take someone else's good fortune because your a shmuck.
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Every time I hear about double dipping it's some upper echelon director or political ...
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2013
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