“State employees do not get to collect SS”
Then again you didnt pay into it while working for the State, so that is understandable. I assume when you were working your way through college you didn’t pay in enough to be eligible to collect SS?. My buddy whom is a California Teacher bitches about the same thing, then I remind him what are you doing with that extra 4-5k a year your not paying into SS? Put away and propely invested would net probably a 300k plus nest egg after 35 years on top of a VERY fair State pension.
Actually, I already have more than $300K in deferrals. Anybody who has put money into SS should be able to roll that over into an IRA, for example. It was earned.