A tipster emailed me about this little section of today’s WaPo article on Hillary in which they describe some of her dark and brooding stories she spins during stops:
In another story, retold recently in Youngstown, Ohio, she describes a “young woman who lost her husband in Iraq, a lovely young woman who had a daughter.”
“Here’s what happened to her,” Clinton said. “She was given $6,000. She was told to leave the [military] base within 90 days. She was told her daughter was no longer eligible for Army medical care. She was basically on her own. So I said, ‘That’s not right.’ So we began to work to change what was really cruel — you lose your husband, you lose your wife, you lose your mom or your dad, and you’re out, and nobody seemed to care.”
Oh really? Survivor benefits are only 6 grand now?
According to this article and this one it appears the benefits are waaaay higher then that. More to the tune of a half a million dollars. Now, granted, it was 250 grand prior to 2005 but that is still a bit more then 6 grand.
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