“I personally know government workers who “retired” from one position, received full pension benefits, then returned to work in another government job which also ended with additional retirement benefits.”
It’s called ‘double dipping’ and is as old as the hills here in MA.
But if they DON'T get that second career; someone ELSE will, and therefore the amount of money leaving government coffers is STILL the same; just going to different people.
We had folks retire and come back as 'consultants' because they were the ONLY folks who knew the job!
(Yeah; they DID get more money for that.)