Marlene Egelhorn is an Australian heiress with $27 million burning a hole in her pocket. In September of 2022, her grandmother passed away and left her a fortune. Now, Egelhorn is looking for 50 people to help her decide how to best spend that windfall. It’s an initiative she’s calling “Good Council for Redistribution.” As of now, her plan is to redistribute 90% of the cash, and each member of her council will receive $1,300, plus travel expenses, for each weekend of discussions they attend on how to best spend the cash. By the way, those 50 people are to be randomly selected, and are limited to Australians…sorry.
Source: BBC
Speaking of money...
Retired Teacher’s Pension Stopped Because She Can’t Prove She’s Not Dead
How do you argue with a government that insists that you’re dead…even though you’re clearly alive? Eileen McGrath is an 85-year-old retired teacher in the UK who’s dealing with her pension being stopped for the fourth time because her provider is convinced that she’s kicked the bucket. It seems that her account was “wrongly matched” with someone who’d died…and she’s even received two letters from Teachers’ Pensions asking her if she was dead. It seems that if someone answers a letter like that, it would serve as a fairly clear clue that they were alive. Just sayin’.
Source: The Guardian