Social Security Rewards Nazis

[kbot]

Nice........ people who have lived here all of their lives, worked here and paid into "the system", get crap in social security benefits, but Nazis........????? Well, the government loves them (apparently), because they pay them "benefits".

What a country, huh?

Suspected Nazis Expelled from U.S. Collected Social Security, AP Investigation Finds

OSIJEK, Croatia - Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in U.S. Social Security benefits after being forced out of the U.S., an Associated Press investigation found. The payments, underwritten by American taxpayers, flowed through a legal loophole that gave the U.S. Justice Department leverage to persuade Nazi suspects to leave the U.S. If they agreed to go, or simply fled before deportation, they could keep their Social Security, according to interviews and internal U.S. government records.

There are at least four living beneficiaries, including Jakob Denzinger, who patrolled the grounds at the Auschwitz camp complex in Poland. He fled to Germany from Ohio in 1989 after learning de-naturalization proceedings against him were underway. Denzinger, who resettled in Croatia, wouldn't discuss his situation when questioned by an AP reporter but his son in the U.S. confirmed his father receives Social Security payments and said he deserved them.

Since 1979, the AP analysis found, at least 38 of 66 suspects removed from the country kept their Social Security benefits. The Social Security Administration expressed outrage in 1997 over the use of benefits, the documents show, and blowback in foreign capitals reverberated at the highest levels of government.

Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said in an emailed statement that Social Security payments never were employed to persuade Nazi suspects to depart voluntarily. The Social Security Administration refused the AP's request for the total number of Nazi suspects who received benefits and the dollar amounts of those payments. Spokesman William "BJ" Jarrett said the agency does not track data specific to Nazi cases. A further barrier, Jarrett said, is that there is no exception in U.S. privacy law that "allows us to disclose information because the individual is a Nazi war criminal or an accused Nazi war criminal." The department also declined to make the acting commissioner or another senior agency official available for an interview.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sus ... on-n229726

My wife, who has cared for a number of patients who had been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps, and who's father served in Europe during WWI was pissed when she heard this earlier this morning. What a slap in the face...... People here have ben fighting the government and social security for years in order to receive what they rightfully are entitled to receive, and here we are paying Nazis.

I swear, you can't make up this stuff.......

[Cherry Kelly]

Read the article and said - good grief - then learned there were only four left now......

It's almost as sad as some of these people 100% SSDI claiming ohhh mental anguish over not being able to find a job. When I see our American veterans who are truly disabled but getting little or no help at all!!! grrrrrrrrr

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[Riddick]

I wonder how many left the country from Illinois?
Prolly trying to get away from the Blues Brothers.

[kbot]

I love the Blue Brothers!!!!!

Yes CK, it does rile the sensibilities, doesn't it?

Snippet:

Meet The Nazis Who Received Social Security Payments After Being Deported From The US

Since 1979, at least 38 of 66 suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards forced out of the United States collected millions of dollars in American Social Security payments, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Here are brief profiles of seven of them:


http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are ... ty-2014-10

Reading this and similar articles, it appears that a number of individuals in the Justice Dept in the government authorized these continued payments. I guess that our government has a view of "justice" that differs from the rest of the country......

[Fan]

We took in and protected the nazis. We are their allies, their friends. Lets not be naive, they have to write articles like this as a steam release valve, but we knew perfectly well what is going on and who lived where. It is government sanctioned, and that has been proven numerous ways and numerous times. Paying them social security is about the least egregious thing we did.

[kbot]

Understood - just proves to me - AGAIN, the misplaced priorities of our government. Not a question of being naïve as it is being reminded who the government considers to be its "friends", and "enemies"....