US lawmakers move to halt benefits to former Nazis
A bipartisan group of lawmakers will introduce legislation Thursday to strip suspected Nazi war criminals of their U.S. government pension benefits, insisting American taxpayers should not be underwriting the retirement of anyone who participated in the Third Reich's atrocities.
The Nazi Social Security Benefits Termination Act comes in response to an Associated Press investigation published in October that revealed millions of dollars in benefits have been paid to dozens of former Nazis who were forced out of the United States. At least four are alive, living in Europe on the benefits, called Social Security.
