Escambia County tax collector, Janet Holley, retired this month. She will take office again in January. The St. Pete Times reports that Holley is part of a “new crop of double dippers, taking advantage of a loophole in state law that allows them to ‘retire’ by taking 30 days off and return to work in their old jobs with a salary and a pension.”
Earlier this year I interviewed Lucy Morgan about this double dipping issue that has about 8,000 people in the the state retirement system collecting both paychecks and pensions. ( Listen )