25,000 out of 70,000 Illinois State Employees are on Workers

LadyJazzer wrote: After 13 pages of Google hits, I can't find anything but conservative blogs as the source for this story... Do you have a REAL source, other than the usual conservative outrage-of-the-day sources?

Food for thought?

neptunechimney wrote:

LadyJazzer wrote: After 13 pages of Google hits, I can't find anything but conservative blogs as the source for this story... Do you have a REAL source, other than the usual conservative outrage-of-the-day sources?

Food for thought?

You're offering peanuts to someone with an allergy.

Denver has the same issue, very few police or fire department people retire without a disability claim. And if they are disabled enough to get a payout on retiring, why does this only appear at retirement and they aren't retired early on?

LJ - workers comp - paid by us the taxpayers in a scam

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well known.

So, did you miss the part where I said:

LadyJazzer wrote: . (Not that I doubted that there is WC fraud in EVERY state...But those are some pretty scary numbers...)

Jeez, a day without a personal attack is day without sunshine...

deltamrey wrote: LJ - workers comp - paid by us the taxpayers in a scam

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well known.

Overstated as always. Worker's Compensation isn't a scam, the people committing fraud are the scam.