Currently Atlantic City puts an estimated $1 million toward its lifeguards' pensions each year. Some of these lifeguards who act as temporary workers over the summer are able to walk away with as much as $15,000. The pension payout has been scrutinized and some argue that it is a waste of funds. However, some of these workers began their job as a life guard as many as fifty years ago. Senator Sweeney, who acts as the President of the New Jersey Senate, is calling for the 88-year-old bill that guarantees the lifeguards' pensions to be repealed.
See "Pensions for Lifeguards? Atlantic City Can’t Afford Them Anymore, Officials Say", PATRICK McGEEHAN, The New York Times, May 6, 2016