LH Gal - you are bullseye perfect. The elder pimps were always hitting me up for a lazy pioneer and her con-artist husband who had at least 5 degrees (pathological liar) who also lived off his mommy. The disadvantaged people in the cult were never helped and weren't in the in-crowd. It was 'splained the nucleus (the in-crowd gang) was the spiritual strength of the congregation - made me ill.
There were some very kind, decent, elders (from what I could tell) that did not do this and weren't in agreement to subsidizing these bums -- or so I heard.