Disability

[Paper1]

I need to stop reading news. Today I learned that Jesse Jackson Jr is collecting $138,000 disability from taxpayers after his release from jail. $100,000 is workers compensation, tax free. His disability is depression. Is anyone in our government concerned with taxpayer money?

[dirtbanker]

Now that is going to get little response from the left...if you want to feel even more irritated look up River North Distribution in Chicago. A budwiser distribution center that Jesse Jackass acquired thru threat of blacks boycotting budwiser because there were no minority owners...

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[Don Baldwin]

I need to stop reading news. Today I learned that Jesse Jackson Jr is collecting $138,000 disability from taxpayers after his release from jail. $100,000 is workers compensation, tax free. His disability is depression. Is anyone in our government concerned with taxpayer money?

Certainly not black people...

[MDLNB]

I need to stop reading news. Today I learned that Jesse Jackson Jr is collecting $138,000 disability from taxpayers after his release from jail. $100,000 is workers compensation, tax free. His disability is depression. Is anyone in our government concerned with taxpayer money?


A good argument for abortion. Wonder why the left has not jumped on that bandwagon. Maybe once Hillary is elected, she will get post-natal abortion passed. After all, she said she is for late term abortion. How much later should the limit be set?

[Don Baldwin]

A good argument for abortion. Wonder why the left has not jumped on that bandwagon. Maybe once Hillary is elected, she will get post-natal abortion passed. After all, she said she is for late term abortion. How much later should the limit be set?

For the WHOLE race? Oh joy! Wouldn't that be wonderful?

[dave harris]

Now that is going to get little response from the left...if you want to feel even more irritated look up River North Distribution in Chicago. A budwiser distribution center that Jesse Jackass acquired thru threat of blacks boycotting budwiser because there were no minority owners...

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Is it legal, seems like the trumpster's said if trump could screw the goernment legally it was okay with them, Shoe is on the other foot now and you don't like it.

[dirtbanker]

Is it legal, seems like the trumpster's said if trump could screw the goernment legally it was okay with them, Shoe is on the other foot now and you don't like it.

Sorry dimwitdave I have no idea what you are trying to say...is that some sort of code?

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[dillywho]

I need to stop reading news. Today I learned that Jesse Jackson Jr is collecting $138,000 disability from taxpayers after his release from jail. $100,000 is workers compensation, tax free. His disability is depression. Is anyone in our government concerned with taxpayer money?

You can be the liberals aren't.

[cologal]

I need to stop reading news. Today I learned that Jesse Jackson Jr is collecting $138,000 disability from taxpayers after his release from jail. $100,000 is workers compensation, tax free. His disability is depression. Is anyone in our government concerned with taxpayer money?
So what is the source of this information? And if true this center left person would be beyond P***ED!

[ColdNoMore]

So what is the source of this information? And if true this center left person would be beyond P***ED!

Yes, it is possibly true (no one knows for sure)...if he qualifies for a 'disability pension.'

Jesse Jackson, Jr. Collects $8,700 Per Month in Disability Payments? (http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/jessejackson.asp)

They speculated that Jackson was apparently eligible for a FERS program that pays “disability retirement” payments, and under that program, Jackson would be eligible to collect 60% of his previous salary (minus any Social security benefits) for 12 months, and 40% of his previous salary afterwards. Since the standard salary for members of Congress at the time Jackson resigned his House seat was $174,000 per year, he could theoretically collect 60% of that amount ($104,400, or $8,700 per month) for up a year.

It’s uncertain whether Jackson actually applied for, was approved for, and/or has collected any such disability retirement payments, though. As the Tribune found, privacy laws preclude government officials from disclosing that information, and it’s possible that reform measures passed by Congress in recent years might prevent him from receiving FERS disability retirement payments.

The question of how much money Jackson might someday garner from his Congressional pension (he isn’t eligible to collect anything until 2021, when he turns 56) depends upon a number of factors. In general, according to an August 2013 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on Retirement Benefits for Members of Congress, the accrual rate for pension benefits under FERS is 1.7% for the first 20 years and 1.0% for each year
beyond the 20th. Since Jackson served in Congress for 17 years, the formula for his basic retirement annuity would be:

[Previous salary * .017 * years of service] = [$174,000 * .017 * 17] = $50,286

And yes, I too would be pi$$ed (if true) that people can take advantage of this apparent loophole that 'depression' from being convicted of a crime ...qualifies for a disability pension. :mad: