TSA is keeping your loose change(loweringthebar.net)
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TSA is keeping your loose change
https://loweringthebar.net/2019/05/alert-tsa-keeping-loose-change.html
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They do propose the alternative of donating it, actually.
TSA keeps the spare change left in security bins, which amounts to $3m over unspecified number of years, with "some evidence that in 2013, TSA was scrounging about half a million dollars a year from security bins" without actually pointing to any evidence. Author finds this a big deal.
It's not linked in the article, but the number comes from a committee report [1] related to the TSA Loose Change Act (which _is_ linked in the article, but finding the report from that link is indeed nontrivial).
I think the interesting part is that TSA keeps the money to fund its own operations. The actual amount they raise is not too surprising.
[1] https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/113th-congress...
I think the interesting part is that TSA keeps the money to fund its own operations. The actual amount they raise is not too surprising.
[1] https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/113th-congress...
They basically have two choices: keep it or throw it out. And why would you throw out money?