Special allowance for disabled government employees?

Why do does the government allow state and federal employees to draw social security?

• Many state and federal employees pay into their pensions while not paying social security during their most productive years, mostly less then the contributors of social security, when they retire, they draw two to three times more then social security pensions. Then the government allows them to work forty quarters and then draw social security. Most of these people draw back what they paid in in less then a year, then draw for their life, plus nothing to medicare. If these people have drawn their money they paid in, they should be removed from the system. It is not fair to us who have paid more into social security then any government person and then have our future compromised because of government employee greed. Presently 39 states public employees have their own pension, 80% will draw social security ten years later. I know of federal employees who have drawn 10's of thousands of dollars over what they paid, make it 80 quarters to qualify. I won't even get back what I paid into it and now I've paid tax on what I put in and now I pay tax on what I take out, double taxation with no representation. If the social security is in trouble so should the federal pension system, after all, it all went to pay for the Vietnam War!! Many thanks to LBJ.

• Answer:

  If a state or federal employee doesn't pay into social security (and by the way, employees who began working for the federal government in 1984 have been covered by social security) and they draw a civil service pension and later earn enough credits to get Social Security, their Social Security benefit is pretty much eliminated under the "Windfall Elimination Provision" which was effective also in 1984. So go ahead and google "Windfall Elimination Provision" and learn all about it; it might make you feel better. The same year the "Windfall Elimination Provision" was enacted, Congress passed a law called the "Government Pension Offset." That law was aimed at the governmental employee who didn't pay into the Social Security system but who later became entitled to Social Security benefits as the spouse of someone who did. Their social security benefit is reduced by 2/3rds of their governmental pension which means that most spouses won't get a social security benefit at all because of the offset. In my state of Michigan, state employees paid into two retirement systems while working - social security and their own civil service benefit. Since they fully contributed to both systems while working I see no reason why they shouldn't collect benefits from both systems.