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chris.....
08-28-12, 08:59 AM
I just saw a posting in the lunchroom for a benefit for a family who lost every thing in a house fire earlier this year. My wife works with the wife. When the fire occurred their ins company put them up in a hotel and then a rental house. Gave the money for new clothes and vehicles. They are rebuilding the house with upgrades, it's now a really nice 2 story log cabin. Benefit? WTF?

MangoPumpkin
08-28-12, 09:03 AM
I just saw a posting in the lunchroom for a benefit for a family who lost every thing in a house fire earlier this year. My wife works with the wife. When the fire occurred their ins company put them up in a hotel and then a rental house. Gave the money for new clothes and vehicles. They are rebuilding the house with upgrades, it's now a really nice 2 story log cabin. Benefit? WTF?

Don't get me started! And no you are not.
jsharr
08-28-12, 09:26 AM
If all that has been done, then no benefit needed. If the deductible, hotel expenses, eating out, buying clothes in the immediate short term was draining them, then a benefit to see them through that is not out of the question.

Couch
08-28-12, 11:41 AM
Burn their new house down. That will learn them.

El Coucho
himespau
08-28-12, 11:57 AM
Wow, I'd see that as someone trying to get a little something for nothing.