Loose change?
 

"TSA Has Over $500,000 in Forgotten Pocket Change from 2012

In fiscal 2012, travelers left $531,000 in pennies, nickels, and dimes at airport security checkpoints, according the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Nearly 95% of the loose change collected came from domestic flights, with $22,000 coming from LAX alone. Altogether, the TSA has amassed over $2 million in the last five years.

What is the TSA planning on doing with all the money?

Currently it sits mostly untouched in an “aviation security fund,” but Florida representative Jeff Miller last week issued a committee report recommending the unused coins go toward upgraded travel amenities for members of the U.S. military and their families while traveling.

Congress is set to vote later this week on Miller's bill."

http://www.travelandleisure.com/trav...-pocket-change

Pete

Let it vanish into the general fund. I don't like the government doing favors for favorites, including the fairly-well-paid volunteer armed services personnel.

Wonder how much didn't get reported.

Chas

That was probably the real purpose of establishing the TSA in the first place, snatching change straight from our pockets. It's easier than passing a tax increase!

Dave

Thieving Security Administration, eh? What happened Chas? Somebody touch your junk?

BAM!!

Pete

No, I just wondered how much didn't get reported.

Chas

According to today's WaPo it was simply that people did not scoop it out of the tubs once past the metal detector.

Thank God my road warrior days are long past.

Air travelers tend to be people on professional salaries for whom change is mostly just a bother, not worth the effort to retrieve. They are never in a position where groping for a dollar or two in change is the difference between getting and not getting.

I used to put all of my spare change in a coffee can every night, until I wound up with a couple of cans of it.

Never again.

Chas