TSA Underpaid for Airline Security Fees

The $2.50 fee collected from airline passengers for each leg of their flights may not be ending up where it's supposed to - at the government agency in charge of airline security.

The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general reported Wednesday airlines are underpaying the Transportation Security Administration an estimated $14.5 million every year in passenger security fees.

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The underpayment by airlines for security comes as logjams at airport security checkpoints loom as the federal government strains to keep screener jobs filled. The usual violent summer storms are expected to send the air traffic control system into chaos at times, with flight delays and cancellations cascading across the country.

Planes are expected to be packed fuller than at anytime since World War II, when the airlines helped transport troops. Fares are rising. Service frills are disappearing.

Read the DHS IG's report here.