From the Detroit Free Press: Three years after her husband was killed in the line of duty, Melissa Alexander-Huff and her son are still coping with the loss.
Detroit Police Officer Brain Huff was shot and killed in May 2010 as he entered a vacant east-side duplex to investigate a report of a break-in.
And now, like other survivors of Detroit police and firefighters killed in the line of duty, Alexander-Huff, 47, is facing the likelihood of another loss — this one, financial.
The City of Detroit, as part of its bankruptcy, plans to cut the pension and health care benefits Alexander-Huff was promised after her husband’s death.
“It’s not only cold, it’s somebody demonic or evil that would only want to step in and include the widows in everything they want to cut and take away,” she told the Free Press on Dec. 4. “Haven’t we lost enough? Shall we bury ourselves and jump into the graves with our husband? Because that is what the City of Detroit is basically doing to us. They’re killing us and our children.”
Alexander-Huff and her 13-year-old son, Blair, are among 150 family members of Detroit police and firefighters killed in the line of duty who receive survivors pension benefits, according to the Detroit Police Officers Association.
Alexander-Huff, who was married to Huff for 11 years, said she and her son receive about $2,200 a month from the Police and Fire Retirement System, one of two pension funds for Detroit employees, after a deduction for health coverage. She said she receives about $730 a week in workers’ compensation. The federal government also provided a death benefit of about $300,000, she said. http://www.freep.com/article/20131222/NEWS01/312220057/Detroit-pensions-police-fire-widows
Democrats hate people who serve this country and cities.
They cut the pensions of the military on the Federal level.
They cut the pensions of those who served and those who died in the line of duty on the local level.
But hey, let's not cut the pensions of other federal employees.
Why do Democrats hate those who serve their country and local governments?
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