U.S. Gov shutdown / social security payments

[BillyBobThai]

For those of us from the states who are on social security, this from The Washington Post:

Department of the Treasury

Total
employees

Expected
to work

Furloughed

110,000 20,000 90,000 Overall impact

The Treasury Department will continue disbursements of Social Security funds, automated revenue collections and the work of daily cash management for the government, in addition to paying interest on the federal debt. But the department’s largest component, the Internal Revenue Service, will cease some of its key functions such as audits, examinations of returns, processing of paper returns and call-center operations for taxpayers with questions.

Impact on workers

About 88 percent of the 110,000 employees working for Treasury Department agencies will be placed on furlough, including nearly 90 percent of the IRS workforce. About 8,800 of the IRS’s 95,000 employees will remain at work for “excepted” roles such as law enforcement — considered necessary to protect life and property — or because their positions are paid for by funds outside of congressional appropriations, among other reasons. Most headquarters and administrative employees will be furloughed, according to the agency’s contingency plan.

[farang000999]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipea--Nze9A

[mogandave]

Paid vacation for federal workers.

[NeverSure]

Awe geez, they are going to shut down the IRS. My heart is broken.

[sirineou]

Paid vacation for federal workers.

If they could pay them then they would not be Furloughed,

as far as I know the furloughed government workers do not get payed for their time off.

[mogandave]

Paid vacation for federal workers.

If they could pay them then they would not be Furloughed,

as far as I know the furloughed government workers do not get payed for their time off.

They will get all their pay including the days they don't work. They always do.

If it lasts longer than a week, their pay might be delayed, but they will still get every penny.