Letter: We should delay tax-funded pension payouts I am all for pensions and think everyone who works deserves one but, obviously this will never happen. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2mvtkle But, why are we the taxpayers paying 40 and 50-year-old healthy adults to sit home on our dime just because they worked for 20 years.? You should not be able to draw taxpayer funded pensions until full retirement age, period.