By Warner Todd Huston —— Bio and Archives December 29, 2010
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“At the Postal Service, more than 1,000 employees currently receiving workers compensation benefits are 80 years or older,” she said. “Incredibly, 132 of these individuals are 90 years of age and older and there are three who are 98.”The Washington Times has more information that you should check out, but the reason that these people are still getting such high payments into the 80s and 90s is because… they chose to get paid more. You heard that right. Due to federal rules as forced upon them by unions a federal worker is allowed to choose whether he keeps getting paid the higher amount under workers comp or go into the retirement benefits at lower compensation. No wonder these guys stay at the higher rate of pay. Who would consciously choose to cut his own salary? It’s hard to blame the worker, at this point. No what the real problem is happens to be the stupidity of the system. It’s all pretty obscene. There is no reason whatsoever that any federal worker should still be getting workers comp once they’ve aged beyond the retirement age. It shouldn’t matter at all why they were on workers comp in the first place, once they reach retirement age they should be immediately placed into the retirement phase of their benefits. Period. This is just another example of the waste of our government.
Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.