No Taxpayer-Funded Pensions for Sex Criminals Act introduced
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 registrants from collecting federal pensions.
Keep in mind that politicians and federal law enforcement are not the only ones who receive federal pensions. Hundreds of thousands of career civil servants, and administrative staff for federal agencies would be affected as well. In fact, the U.S. Federal Government is the largest single employer in the United States, with a total workforce of approximately 3 million people as of mid-2024. This figure includes civilian employees in various departments and the U.S. Postal Service, as well as active-duty military personnel. That’s double Walmart’s count and triple Amazon’s.
So now (assuming this passes, which hopefully it won’t), people on the registry will become a special class of individuals no longer getting a pension. Let’s compound that with Florida Rep. Steube’s introduction of the so-called CLEAN Act a couple of months ago, which would bar anyone on a sex offense registry from receiving ACA premium tax credits or federally funded Medicaid.
So now (assuming that passes, which hopefully it won’t), people on the registry will lose health coverage as well. Let’s compound that with the deep cuts to other benefits, such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that affect all Americans in need, registrants might lose their pensions, lose necessary health coverage, and lose food stamps.
So now again, compound that with 18 U.S.C. Sec. 13663, which specifically prohibits admission to subsidized housing for households containing someone subject to a lifetime registration requirement under state law (Florida is lifetime for ALL). So registrants – and their families – are ineligible for Section 8 housing.
For people on the registry, prison is becoming the closest thing America offers to a social safety net.
Can’t afford rent? Prison gives you a roof over your head. Sure, it’s a rusty bunk in a crowded concrete box with a toilet three feet from your face, but technically you’re not homeless anymore. Struggling to eat? They’ll give you three meals a day. Maybe “meal” is generous, but expired mystery meat still beats an empty stomach. Need healthcare? Congratulations. Incarceration finally makes you eligible for medical treatment. They may barely acknowledge your symptoms and hand you ibuprofen like it cures cancer, but hey, it’s more healthcare access than you’ll get on the outside.
Otherwise, if you’re burdened with endless registry restrictions, your pension evaporates, you’re excluded from housing and healthcare subsidies, excluded from all other assistance programs, unemployable in practice, and pushed further and further to the margins every year, there’s not much of a roadmap to success.
At some point, you have to ask whether the system is designed to encourage rehabilitation or whether it’s quietly making incarceration the only stable option left for us.
In all seriousness, the data consistently shows that sexual offense recidivism rates are low – that’s FACT. That means there are hundreds of thousands of Americans who may have committed an offense decades ago, but who have since lived law-abiding lives, raised families, followed every rule imposed on them, and genuinely tried to move forward responsibly.
But when laws and policies make housing unattainable, employment impossible, healthcare inaccessible, and basic survival a constant struggle, we have to ask what message is being sent. A system that removes pathways to success does not strengthen public safety. It undermines it. If we truly want safer communities, the answer cannot be to make lawful living harder than unlawful living for people who are trying to do the right thing.
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Look at all the problems in this country, drug, robbery, murder etc. Say Chicago all the looting/shoplifting and the stores are pulling out of the area. It is not us causing those problems. They are so focused on us they are missing the bigger picture, until it hits them in the face. Daily problems are not affected by us, in mass. When you walk down the street in most places you are not worried about your child be SA’ed but watching who is going to rob you. Next door to me their is a drug dealer and on the other side a murderer. But guess who gets the spotlight. lol Heck I get more respect from those 2 than others. Both their crimes were from many, many years ago, but so was mine. Nobody is going to let me near their children because of the registry. So bed space in prison would be better off going to cracking down on career criminals.
I hope it doesnt pass, my family and I rely on the 100% VA disability. I servered Honorably in the Military. I didnt get on the registry until after I retired. I still work but I dont make enough to cover all of my responsibilities.
Please don’t mention VA disability! Don’t give these politicians who might read this any ideas.
Im curious if these same politicians who used taxpayer money to hush up sexual allegations were on the same side of the bill they are pushing to remove said benefits for people who have earned them. Let’s face it majority of politicians are sexual deviants and belong on the registry they fight so hard for. Let’s start forcing them to be out on the same list as everyone else and stop using tax money to pay off their charges to make them dissappear.
No, we have no evidence that any of the bill sponsors used taxpayer money to hush up sexual allegations.
They’re going to ride the RSO laws , restrictions and fear horse until it’s nothing but dust and bones. Then they will ride the ghost of it for another couple decades.. You remember the WW2 story’s? Just wait because we all going to be getting a front row seat for part two…We won’t be getting the cushy guard roles either ..
I said it thirty years ago when everyone laughed at me, and I’m saying it again today it won’t stop until we stop it. whoever claimed “violence solves nothing” has never solved anything.
Until the elites face a serious and credible threat of violence — or actual violence — they will keep pushing harder and harder. Don’t be mad at me, I didn’t write the rules, history has .They will only stop when they are forced to stop. History proves this over and over. They will never hold themselves accountable to the laws they impose on everyone else, so what other leverage exists to make them reconsider their corrupt behavior? Nothing.
Prove me wrong.
I’ve been right in spades for thirty-five years, and I have the full weight of
Creating more laws that make individuals forced to register a societal burden. However, it would be more expensive to house them in prison. Such short sightedness. Many forced to register are working therefore contribute to the system. The obsession by a few individuals regarding those forced to register is deeply concerning. But yet our politicians are ok allowing non-citizens to defraud and live off taxpayers backs. Our country has far bigger problems than what these ladies want to focus on.
At one time they threw around an idea to not allow us to get social security, disability and food stamps.
That got shot down, but anything is possible the way things are going.
give it time.. it will come back around.. bad ideas always do .