That’s gonna be a hard one to stop unless you can find a way to put in that aforementioned exception. Contact the Senator’s office and explain the situation.
Copy/paste this vanity in the form of a letter and email it to each state legislator and senator.
Do weekly follow ups. Find like minded individuals. Enlist their help. Start a grass roots movement.
Etc. Etc.
Is your sister still married to her husband?
Would your sister have been entitled to his federal pension had he not been convicted?
Whatever, though, I hope it works out.
A convicted pedophile should not receive one cent of taxpayer money while serving time in prison. This cannot stand.” My sister is not a pedophile yet this will cause her great financial distress, even losing her house.
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If you have the language of the bill and either post it or send it to me, I’ll take a look at it. I can’t believe they wouldn’t have provision in the language preventing adverse impact on innocent spouses or children.
Possibly your sister will end up having the husband’s (former husband?) ENTIRE pension payment sent directly to her for her use only.
She needs to write her congressman and both senators.
Your post suggests that this is proposed legislation, not something that has already passed, is that correct?
Is this related to Florida state pensions? Or some proposed federal law?
I can’t imagine that US congress would pass a bill like this, which would pertain to pensions paid by the states.
Without more details about the source of the pension and the status of the pending legislation, it sounds like there is not enough info to panic, IMHO.
We need a little more context (like the text of the bill.)
I doubt the government can tell a private company who it can and cannot pay a pension to.
Nothing can, or should be done.
Her husband is a pedophile. He’ll lose his pension because of it and rightfully so.
Too bad she was counting on it, and him.
A couple of things bother me about your story.
Your use of “This Republican Senator”, for one.
What does that have to do with your story?
And you come on a Conservative site and ask for help based on your story. You are telling us, a Conservative audience, that your brother in law cheated on his wife and then molested a little girl. Your sister then took him back. He then went to prison.
Is this right?
How are we supposed to help you?
The Senator’s Office is going to want to know your name, your sister’s name and your brother in law’s name.
They will want to know when and where he molested this little girl.
Actions have consequences. He should have been taken out and executed. Sorry, no sympathy.
HE won’t be receiving it- SHE will be receiving what she is entitled to.
That would be the tack I would take.
Don’t understand it all but how does this person have a federal pension?
Did he have the years of service to qualify for a pension prior to his
illegal acts?
“even losing her house.”....
Is the house just hers or does the criminal still own his share?
You didn’t make that plain. In other words are they still married?
It sounds like sister was awarded part of ex husband penson via the divorce degree since she is receiving it now.
I would think that if it were part of a divorce degree, she would continue to get it.
He would not personally receive the pension dollars. His other now ex wife, may have also requested or will get his pension as part of divorce degree if they were married long enough.
I also think this would be going forward not retroactive.
It hasn’t passed ....yet.
It may never come up for a vote or a signature. This sounds like posturing than an active bill with real support.
When someone commits such a horrible crime they always end up hurting innocents.
He hurt the little girl he molested.
He hurt his wife with the punishment he brought down upon himself.
He hurt the little girls mother.
Taxpayer money should not go to pedophiles. It is a shame that your innocent sister was relying on the income of a pedophile - but unfortunately life isn’t fair. Just ask the little girl in this case.
I doubt seriously it can be retroactive even if passed & signed today.
Maybe your sister can ask the little girl that was molested by your brother in law for some money.
Has she tried that yet?
Just remember this: Poorly written laws quickly become tools of oppressions.
No names.....no dates.....no locations......
Just a story about a meanie Republican.
Huh.
It’s almost like you’re spreading Democrat propaganda.
Yes, an amendment to the bill should be offered, providing exceptions for “the beneficiaries” of a pedophile’s pensions (or other benefits). It can easily be promoted as not putting the sins of the guilty party off on their beneficiaries.