A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, led by Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York, is taking action to strip suspected Nazi war criminals of their Social Security benefits.
Legislation to be introduced Thursday comes after an Associated Press investigation revealed millions of dollars in benefits have been paid to former Nazis who were forced out of the United States.
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The bill would end benefits when Nazi suspects lose their American citizenship, a step called denaturalization. U.S. law currently requires a higher threshold — a final order of deportation — before benefits can be terminated.
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney says American taxpayers should not be “subsidizing the retirements of those guilty of the worst atrocities in human history.”
Republicans Jason Chaffetz of Utah and Leonard Lance of New Jersey joined Maloney to introduce the legislation.
