The Washington Examiner‘s Sean Higgins has an important piece up today about how thousands of Minnesotans who care for disabled and indigent family members are trying to remove a parasite from their lives — the Service Employees International Union. For more than two years now, the SEIU has been skimming from the benefit checks of their home-bound loved ones, in exchange for nothing at all. They’d like to end the arrangement that was made possible by a Democratic governor’s sweetheart deal and an election that many of them never knew about.

A version of this same benefit-skimming scam has been attempted in several states, and was at one point common enough that the U.S. Supreme Court stepped into limit its scope.