Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
The Defense Department needs this money to pay for the $500,000 in upgrades to buses they are buying to give FREE transportation to people who have a job, at the MARK cntr, to get moeny from widows...what is wrong with this picture?
>she then cashed the check, paying more than $6,000 in taxes.
Ah, Government, where paying your taxes is not enough to prevent them from taxing or seizing your property.
“I’m sorry miss, but the price for...protection, just went up.”
OH PUL-LEEEZE!
This is well known. I bet the woman knew this and just kept quiet. Now she has to pay back what was not hers to have.
When her husband died...determined were military-related, Green had to choose between collecting his pension or a separate monthly benefit from the Veterans Administration.
She chose the latter.
In addition to the monthly benefit, the Pentagon sent her more than $41,000 from the government-sponsored insurance policy her husband purchased.
Green said she received the lump-sum check shortly after his death.
It prompted her to call the Defense Department for an explanation, she said.
"I called Air Force finance, and they said, 'No. That's your money.' I was afraid...they made a mistake."
The letter from the Air Force reads: "Because Jerry died from 100 percent service-connected disabilities, all of the money he paid for survivor's benefits is to be refunded."
"That's what they told me," she recalled.
Green said she then cashed the check, paying more than $6,000 in taxes.
In 2009, a federal judge ruled survivors could get both of the original benefits if they remarry after the age of 57.
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If I understand this correctly, she's getting the $41k paid as a refund, not as a benefit, then she has the priviledge of paying taxes on it and now the gov't wants it ALL back, this woman will have essentially paid $12k to the gov't if she's not "credited" the original $6k she paid.
Plus, Finance stated it was a REFUND of premiums paid. It's not a benefit.
I'm not going to presume to know how ALL of this works because they deliberately make it confusing as hell sometimes, but this one appears to be sticking it to the spouse.
Scam by the insurance companies
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And yet, we have people walk across our border who get free services starting on day one. Does anyone demand they pay it back? Hell no.
So yeah, let’s go after those damned widows. Makes sense to me. /s
There are times when I honestly... well, never-mind. You’re thinking it too.
Why do all these crazy regulations seem to encourage shacking up over marriage?
The fact that you lose your widow’s benefits if you remarry is told to the individual over and over at the outset and is in the paperwork. This is not a surprise.