every dollar of dead. mayor luke ravenstahl is the mayor. things have to change. reporter: retiring at age 50, ending a pension half of their take-home pay. firefighters can boost their pensions by making more overtime in the last years on duty. a pension called pension spiking. is that fair? it s not. reporter: usually pension spiking does not go on? not in this bureau. i m not sure in other cities. this way, the way the overtime is distributed, it s an even rotating list. reporter: firefighters deny they re engaging in pension spiking. they blame city hall. because of fiscal mismanagement, the cities and governments and thing, the working man shouldn t have to suffer from that. reporter: rob, with the local firefighters union, is open to raising the retirement age, but says this no job for senior citizens. so what am i supposed to do with somebody that reaches the
mayor luke ravenstahl is the mayor. retire at age 50, ending a pension half of their take home pay. firefighters can boost their pensions by morninging more overtime in the last years on duty. a pension called pension spiking. is that fair? it s not. reporter: usually pension spiking does not go on? not in this bureau. i m not sure in other cities. this way, the way the overtime is distributed, it s an even rotating list. reporter: firefighters blame city hall. because of fiscal mismanagement, the cities and governments and thing, the working man shouldn t have to suffer from that. reporter: the local firefighters union is open to raising the retirement age but says this no job for senior citizens? what am i supposed to do with the person who reaches the age