When it was revealed that a top UW-Green Bay administrator retired then returned to the same job a month later, earning both his six-figure salary and a hefty state pension, some members of the Legislature and the public expressed shock at such “double dipping.” But Thomas Maki, UW-Green Bay?s vice chancellor, is far from alone. In the past five and a half years, at least 6,829 state and local government employees covered by the Wisconsin Retirement System left then returned to work, simultaneously earning a pension and a salary.
On Friday, (Governor) Walker said he supports a bill that would end double dipping. But the Republican governor has no plans to ask his appointees to stop taking their pensions, spokesman Cullen Werwie said.