What a Rip Off for Taxpayers

Hi Everyone,

Due to life happenings, I was unable to blog for the last 2 weeks, but now I'm back. I have nothing against police or firefighters, but this true story may make you think twice about their honesty.

As we all are aware, police and firefighters have the ability to work huge amounts of overtime for 1,2 or3  years immediately prior to their retirement. That excessive amount of overtime is then included in the calculation to determine the amount of their pension. But, what would you say if I told you that there are some police and firefighters who worked the years of excessive amount of overtime, only to apply for a disability pension, (instead of a regular pension), based on a work related injury that occurred prior to their working the excessive overtime. Sound far fetched?

Unfortunately, this is another true story. Somehow, someway, these supposedly dedicated police and firefighters are able to find a doctor that will attest to their full "disability" at their time of retirement. How can someone claim a work related injury after they had worked huge amounts of weekly overtime for years after to their so called injury. There were a bunch of these people who claimed that their work related injury occurred 4,5 or more years prior to their retirement date. Talk about entitlement. This is grand larceny on an indecent scale. I just can't wrap my mind over the fact that these public servants can lie their way, (including their doctor) and the state's doctors to approve that they were disabled at the time of their retirement. But they worked tons of overtime immediately prior to retiring. What is wrong with this picture?

With their new full disability pension, they are collecting yearly pensions in the 6 digits. This is blatant fraud and I, for the life of me, can't figure out how this happens. If you can work excessive amount of overtime for years prior to their retirement, how can they apply for and receive a disability pension? They were obviously not disabled to be able to work the overtime. How can state doctors agree that they are disabled at the time of their retirement. Someone is definitely getting their palms greased to go along with them. If they were truly disabled, they would not have been able to work the excessive overtime, or am I missing something here. I don't think I am missing anything. These are greedy people, who only care about themselves and who have found the golden goose loophole that needs to be corrected ASAP.

Where is the common sense in determining whether someone is disabled? I can only hope that people in authority will be able to stop this insanity, sooner rather than later. If this continues, it will bankrupt the system and then we the taxpayers will pay even more!!!!!!

Til next week.

Peter