Posted on 11/25/2019 12:34:16 PM PST by Libloather
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of the late Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, will receive an $174,000 payment as part of a continuing resolution that is expected to keep the government open through Dec. 20.
The personal payment in this latest spending bill continues a long-standing practice of providing a death gratuity for a departed member’s survivors. The gratuity is usually included in the next appropriations bill following a lawmakers's death and is paid to the “next of kin” in the amount of one year’s compensation - $174,000.
The House is expected to vote on the stopgap spending measure Tuesday and the Senate later this week before the current funding bill expires Thursday. White House officials have indicated several times that President Donald Trump supports the bill, though the president himself hasn’t said so.
The families of Louise M. Slaughter and John McCain were each issued the death gratuity in recent years. The fiscal 2018 omnibus spending bill included $174,000 to an heir of the late New York Democrat Louise M. Slaughter, the former House Rules chairwoman.
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Now she can afford a good lawyer.
The continuation of the pillaging
Well, I’m glad they asked us taxpayers. Since we certainly would have approved.
She must also be getting his pension. If you serve more than 5 years (elected 3 times) and reach age 62 you are eligible to receive it. He qualifies.
But what the heck, why wouldn’t Congress grant themselves a special death benefit to their spouses that few other people in America can get. Probably one of the earliest pieces of pork graft legislation they will never repeal.
Dad was wise. It used to be that one took a government job and traded job security for pay. Not anymore. Now they do better and then some. Now anyone who asks me I tell them if you’re just going to be some kind of clerk or paper pusher do it for the government instead of the private sector.
For as long as it lasts, anyway. It may not last another generation. These pension funds are going to break us.
Now that Cummings is dead I’d imagine the contributions to his wife’s fake charity have dried up quicker than the Clinton Foundation’s after Hillary lost the election. She probably needs the money now, it’s got to be tough when you’re used to skimming a quarter million a year.
Now that is an intriguing idea; maybe a pool could be established to close the books on the coup plotters after they are executed for sedition and treason (dreams o dreams).
Well..that’s a different way to look at it.
insult to injury
Of course they do; Congress-critters are eligible for Federal Employee Group Life Insurance (FEGLI). If Cummings selected Option B, he was covered for an amount equal to his annual Congressional salary, with the option to buy additional coverage, up to five times the base amount. So, the “death gratuity” is just gravy on the steak.
And don’t forget: Cummings and his wife were accused of potential wrong-doing for the various non-profits they were involved with. No telling how much of that money had its way into their pockets.
Would also be interesting to check out Cummings’ various investment accounts. Remember: Congress is not subject to the various insider trading laws that govern other federal employees. So, if they know a certain firm is about to get a big contract, they can buy the stock before the deal is announced, and turn a nice profit when it goes up in value. Congress passed a bill in 2012 that was supposed to halt insider trading, then quietly gutted its provisions the following year.
I remember looking at one of the last financial disclosure forms issued by the late Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS). He accumulated an $11 million fortune on the public payroll (meager by Pelosi and Feinstein standards but enough to live very comfortably). According to the statement, Cochran or his advisers were very active stock traders, and knew how to play the market well. And when his health began to fail and he was forced to retire from the Senate, Cochran moved to the head of the line and was placed in the state veterans home in Oxford, where he lived out his days.
“There are a lot of things to be upset about Cummings, and the apparent corruption of his widow, but this is not one of them.”
Wrong. CONgresscritters already have death benefits and access to life insurance plus many other benefits they don’t want the public to know about. It’s amazing how some Freepers support those (mostly) scum.
I don’t know when this absurdity started but it should be ended. Why give these families a nice lump sum when they already have every perk in the world now?
They didn’t steal enough while he was alive?
I’ll remember this next time my GOP congress critter says there are no easy cuts in the federal budget.
amen
The ballooning of the National debt is directly related to the exponential jump in odumbo et. All. corruption. More than all other presidents combined. Goes for his corruption too.
Who cares....it’s my money they give away.
Why did Cindy McCain need our tax money? Need to repaint one of her 8 homes?
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