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Airline passengers leave about $400,000 a year in coins they forget to — or choose not to — take with them as they scramble to catch flights, according to the Transportation Security Administration. In 2010, that loose change amounted to $409,085.56. That's $376,480.39 in dollar coins, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies, plus foreign currency worth $32,605.17. (travel.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Why is it federal money? How about it going to the local airport authority and they donate it to local charities and keep congress out of it.
It's Federal money because it was left at a TSA screening checkpoint. If it was left outside the checkpoint (either prior to the checkpoint or after the checkpoint in the sterile area), then the money would go to the airport, but they would also use it to cover operational costs.
Congress is trying to mandate how TSA spends the money, but they are ignoring other federal agencies. For example, money that is turned in to the National Park Service because someone found it at the Washington Monument, or money that is left at a CBP clearance hall at an airport is held in escrow by those agencies for a period of time (something like 90 days) then deposited in their general funds. No one complains about that, do they? The private contractors before TSA probably wouldn't even do that much.
Congress is trying to mandate how TSA spends the money, but they are ignoring other federal agencies. For example, money that is turned in to the National Park Service because someone found it at the Washington Monument, or money that is left at a CBP clearance hall at an airport is held in escrow by those agencies for a period of time (something like 90 days) then deposited in their general funds. No one complains about that, do they? The private contractors before TSA probably wouldn't even do that much.
Actually, that is what needs to be done with it but them being Federal, they should at least be abiding by the current law, which mandates it go into CFC. They apparently aren't doing that
Current law actually allows any Federal agency to use lost-and-found money for their operations after holding it in escrow for a period of time. The escrow period allows for claims to the money.
Great idea... I like your thinking.
If they're concerned about it I'll give them a bank acct to deposit it in to relieve their conscious. What about all the other things they confiscate beside loose change?
While we waited for a flight recently at FLL, the TSA made 5 separate sets of announcements in a 2 hour period to recall passengers to pick up items they had left. Most times two separate announcements were made. Those items included a hat, a set of ear buds, headphones, a phone, and a pillow. If TSA was really as greedy as some have made them out to be, no announcements would have been made at all.