He also uses the payments to relatives of civil war veterans

Juanita Tudor Lowrey received government benefits tied to his father, a civil war veteran (Charlie Riedel/AP) 10 years after the launch of the war in Iraq, a number of critics and analysts have been pointing to extravagant financial cost of the war – to say nothing of its toll on human lives. But a surprising report shows that nearly 150 years after its conclusion, the Government of the United States is still paying relatives of civil war veterans.

An analysis by the Associated Press found that more than $ 40 billion a year is being spent on veterans and survivors of wars dating back to the Spanish-American war of 1898 up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

There are actually only two recipients of the benefits of the civil war, both sons of veterans and receiving 876 $ per year.

Although their names are being kept private, the AP estimates that were both born between 1920 and 1930, meaning parents themselves were more than 80 years, when their children were born.

Juanita Tudor Lowrey, 86, received benefits of civil war linked to his father from age 2 until his eighteenth birthday.

Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and veteran military and said the Government should consider evidence of veterans as the federal debt burden continues to grow.

"Without a doubt, would inflow-test all those people," Simpson told AP.

Simpson deficit reduction Committee co-chaired by President Obama in 2010, which offered a series of recommendations for the reduction of the federal budget defecit.

And while it would be natural to assume the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are more expensive, payments to veterans of the Viet Nam war almost doubles the cost of our two current wars, $ 22 billion of $ 12 billion, respectively.

Simpson said he was driving a number of new disorders added to the coverage of veterans, including heart disease, costs.

"It was terribly abused," he said.

Meanwhile, World War II is still costing the Federal Government about $ 5 billion a year. And the Korea war still costs taxpayers approximately 2.8 billion annually.

Surprisingly, $ 20 million is still to be paid each year to 2,289 family veterans from World War II, many of which are over 100 years old. But maybe even unknown, 47 benefit recipients are not even born until after the war.

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