No disrespect to this widow here, but why did your husband not have life insurance if you had 2 small children at home? I have no doubt my death would impact my family in many ways, including financial, but they would not be destitute and my childrens college educations would be secure.
Maybe Hillary and the Dems can kick in all their illegal chinese money!
We are in the midst of a major disaster in Southern California where people lost everything. We have widows/widowers and the children of our troops needing help too. And, where’s the outcry for our severely wounded troops and their families who desperately need help?
I’ve got mine and it comes right out of my paycheck. Insurance is cheep if it’s locked in when you’re in your 20s or 30s.
Mine takes a huge jump when I’m around 75 but then my family will not need it as much. I’ll have my funeral prepaid shortly also.
I knew that all those “funds” after 9/11 were a bad idea. How low/small can a calamity go/get for survivors to clammer for a special fund?
“Victims”? sometimes I hate “victims”.
I say “Victims” in the sense of people who fail to take advantage of programs/systems that are available to everybody but they choose not to because they find better things to do with their money.
Agree!
It’s called living responsibly.
The problem is we should NOT have had a fund for 9/11 victims paid by the GOVERNMENT. We didn’t have one when Timothy McVeigh went nuts .... . People are being conditioned to use EMOTION to get money out of the government.
I’m sorry these people are having troubles due to the bridge collapse. People have accidents and die everyday and don’t always look for someone else to pay their bills.
The state should pay for medical bills over and beyond what their car insurance covered. The state was negligent in allowing that bridge to get into the dangerous shape that it was in. But, I don’t believe that children’s education and payments to the spouse for wages lost should be doled out on a whim.
Also some of these people, and kids, are probably eligible for Social Security survivor benefits depending on age and how long they’ve been paying into it. The dirty little secret of Social Security is that you can accumulate enough points for your family to earn at least a decent check each month should you die. It’s an insurance program as well as a retirement program. I have enough points that it will put my son through college just on that check alone. My wife won’t have to touch the insurance.
You are aware, aren’t you, that some people CAN’T get life insurance or it’s too expensive because of pre-existing conditions? I certainly don’t know if that’s the case here, but I recently tried to get a higher level of life insurance and was rejected.