Source: gillibrand.senate.gov 5/5/226
U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) reintroduced the No Taxpayer-Funded Pensions for Sex Criminals Act, bipartisan legislation to prohibit convicted sex criminals from collecting federal pensions.
Under current law, federal employees convicted of sex crimes, including against children, remain eligible to collect their pensions, even from a jail cell. The senators introduced this legislation to ensure that hard-earned taxpayer dollars are not spent supporting convicted sex criminals who betrayed the trust of the people they served.
“It’s outrageous that federal employees convicted of sex crimes are eligible to collect their taxpayer-funded pension,” said Senator Gillibrand. “The bipartisan No Taxpayer-Funded Pensions for Sex Criminals Act ensures that no hard-earned taxpayer dollars are spent supporting criminal sex offenders. I’m proud to support this commonsense bill that will provide much-needed accountability.”
Senators Gillibrand and Ernst previously worked together on the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act to create a more professional and transparent military justice system for serious crimes, including rape and sexual assault.
Additionally, Senator Gillibrand successfully passed her bipartisan Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act in 2022. This crucial legislation prevents perpetrators from being able to push survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault into the secretive, biased process of forced arbitration. Senator Gillibrand also leads the bipartisan Tax Fairness for Survivors Act, which would remove the federal tax penalty on settlements, awards, and judgments paid to survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
“hard-earned taxpayer dollars”
Oh, you mean the billions of HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS spent on ICE funding and the war in IRAN? Not to mention that stupid ballroom.and proposed arches.
Are those the same tax dollars to which you’re refering to?
Hypocrites.
“I’m proud to support this commonsense bill that will provide much-needed accountability.”
Oh, of course you’re proud of your confident ignorance! Wonder how many skeletons are hiding in your closet that YOU should be held accountable for? Huh?
So once again, you’re being financially punished just because of a conviction in America. They’re using outrage as an excuse too. Logic be damned. Guess it doesn’t matter if you earned it, right?
You really can tell they’re using people made to register as RED MEAT for upcoming midterms. It’s just going to get worse in to coming months.
“Eligible to collect” is a funny way of saying “entitled to compensation they labored for.” What’s with the US government and reneging on commitments lately? Adding punishments, like the public registry or fines or exiling PFRs long after they were dealt their real punishments? Is the US government’s word good for anything?
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U just cant make this *%$* up .
Its called Disabling thats why anyone on the registry needs to receive a disability check from these idiots. It prevents you from finding work, it causes stress, anxiety, depression, high blood preasure. stops those on the hit list from finding a job and finding housing, the registry causes many health issues. As far as a penstion goes $hit 🤣 90% dont even have a roof or a place to call home do you think we give a %&*# about a penstion thats the last of our worries. These People making these stupid @zz laws and running this Country are idiots. 90% of us are more worried about finding a meal and a place to rest our heads. Give me a #$@&^* break already. 30 plus years i been held down by these fools screw their them n their Penstions.
These two tw**waffles are behind every UCMJ Article 120, etc improvement and want more to credit. They seem to forget the government has their employees contribute to their retirement. So, to take away what they contributed and the earnings from it would violate the takings clause. I wish they’d go away.
Of course, if you do literally 30 seconds of research, you find that federal pensions are NOT tax payer funded. Pensions from 1984 forward are fully pre-funded. Pensions for employees hired prior to 1984 we not fully pre-funded, so the only tax payer exposure comes contributions and interest fall short. In other words, this is more grandstanding.
This is just down right theft. Over the years, those employees have contributed part of their earnings toward pension funds, so the government can’t just turn around and steal it because the benefactor committed an offense they find distateful… especially if it didn’t happen on the job! So a janitor in a VA building should lose his pension for doing something totally unrelated to the job like viewing cp in the comfort of his home. But a drug dealer or robber that hits someone up beside the head keeps his pension? 🤗 That makes no sense at all
So in other words, they want to re-negotiate terms of employment long after the employee leaved the job. Anyone receiving a federal pension earned it as part of their compensation (and likely funded part of it themselves). This is not a giveaway, this is compensation for a job done.
Hopefully this wouldn’t survive a court challenge, since it involves taking someone’s earning without due process.
Senators Gillibrand and Ernst, you are among the most influential lawmakers in the country, and the decisions you make affect millions of people. Civil laws were never meant to function as tools of punishment or to bypass the constitutional limits that protect every American family. Power in a constitutional republic is always bidirectional — the authority used today against one group can be used tomorrow in ways none of us expect.
This legislation does not only affect the person convicted. It affects the entire household. Many families rely on a federal pension to pay rent, utilities, food, and medical bills. If that income is removed, the spouse and children — who committed no crime — lose their stability overnight. In cases where the offense involved a family member, this bill would even harm the victim by removing the financial support they depend on.
A law that destroys innocent households is not justice. It is collateral damage written into policy. I hope that as you consider this bill, you also consider how its long‑term effects could reach far beyond its intended target, including families who never imagined they would be touched by it.
Why stop at federal pensions – why not take away Social Security and all government entitlements from anyone convicted or accused of anything ever? Shit, you’re already stealing potential earnings by making it nearly impossible for PFRs to hold down a job – make ‘em forfeit their savings, too. I mean, f ‘em.
These wicked, sadistic C U Next Tuesday’s, along with Nancy Mace over in the House, are concocting their own version of this BS. I just hope I get to see them poisoned by their own venom, a la Eric Swalwell.
Clearly discrimination. Why not any crime, and this includes members of congress. Any conviction of any kind and no pension, no exceptions. Otherwise they are just targeting a specific group.