Former Wisconsin Teachers Aid will get a pension for 5 years, part time work.
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
February 22, 2011 5:03pm CST
This is part of the problem we face here in Wisconsin. The union benefits are just not sustainable. Not only can teachers and state workers retire at 55, they can then go to another Wisconsin state agency or school district and continue to work.. collecting both pension and paycheck.. while they are collecting the paycheck, they are also accruing more time towards their pension.
Nothing illustrates the problem more than one former Teachers Aid. She worked in the Sheboygan School District for 5 years, back in the 80s. Because her total hours adds up to more than 3 years (the number of years it takes to be fully vested), she will start receiving her pension when she turns 55 (later this year).
So, for a job that paid her $7000+ a year. She will receive $2760 per year for the rest of her life... and if her husband outlives her, he'll continue to collect it too.
Now, I don't begrudge this woman anything, I only post this to show how unsustainable our current state employee and teacher benefits are.
This is the only state I've lived in where Teachers Aids even got pay or benefits at all. They have always been volunteers
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4 responses
@irishidid (8687)
• United States
23 Feb 11
A paraprofessional in Kansas is paid according to their experience and gains for every class they take(and are required)to make them better able to do their job. I've never heard of them voluntarily doing the job and wouldn't expect them to.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
23 Feb 11
But do they get a pension after only 5 years of part time work? 25 years after they quit?
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
23 Feb 11
thats what I thought volunteers
but since it looks like they did pay her and also looks like she paid her dues she will get the pension its not much butthis does help her but then too she probably needs to get another job and retire at 66 like the rest of us and draw SS att hat age.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
23 Feb 11
This happens all over the country, double-dipping. I remember in Arizona when I lived there, there was a school admin who retired and got a handsome pension then was re-hired to the same position to make a good salary while he received the pension, thus making way for an additional pension a few years later.
I know that people are trying to make as much as possible but this is just wrong, especially when the job market is so bad.
