From school janitors to cabinet secretaries, thousands of public employees in Wisconsin who retired in recent years returned to work, allowing them to earn both a paycheck and a state pension, according to a Legislative Audit Bureau report released Friday. The study found that 2,783 employees of the University of Wisconsin System and state agencies who had retired returned to work between January 2007 and March 2012. In addition, 2,599 retirees from local school districts, cities and counties also were rehired between January 2011 and March 2012, the audit bureau found.
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