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Date: June 04, 2023 04:36PM
When I was active on this board about ten years ago, I remember a former member who had been involved in some way with the money collection process writing about the nuts and bolts of tithing and other monetary collections from members: how tithing/offerings are collected, where it goes next, how the local expenses (electric bill, whatever) are paid, etc.
After watching the 60 Minutes whistleblower episode I started thinking about it again and would like to refresh my memory.
Please does anyone here know enough to give a quick overview? Or can anyone answer these questions:
Are tithing/offerings collected at branch or ward level, or some other way?
Assuming the money is collected locally, is a percentage of that sent to SLC, and another percentage kept for local use (bills, local charities, etc)?
Or does all the money collected locally go to SLC and SLC decides how much money to send back for local use?
Or something entirely different?
Roughly what percentage of money that is raised from members locally gets to be used locally? Roughly what percentage of local member money disappears to the opaque SLC accounts never to be seen again?