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New Hampshire Senator: Pension reform to work

Too many people have taken advantage of the state retirement system, boosting their pensions to exceed their salaries, state Sen. Jeb Bradley said.

Prime sponsor of a bill that led to recent pension reform legislation, Bradley said "all the reforms taken together" will eliminate future cases of "high profile" pensioners and so-called double-dippers.

"It's not rampant and widespread," he said. "The double-dipping, which gets people rightfully so upset — someone who retires from a high-profile job and goes on to another high-profile job — I think it will curb the examples like that..."

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