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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Public service retirement benefits and pensions are paid for life, even if you worked for only a few years. You’re an expense on the books until you die. In the private sector once you quit or are laid off, the employer doesn’t owe you another penny.
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Not at all true. You have to reach a vesting period in most systems to gain benefit. If you leave before that, you get only what YOU paid in. You lose all the money paid in by the employer.