I’m not sure if issuing flood insurance is being done. It was stalled last week.

Government employees trying to buy a home or even refinance may not be able to because confirmation of wages aren’t happening now. This also has an effect on the sale of homes of course.

A fed friend of one of my former co-workers (I am a retired fed) had told her that she and her husband were about to finalize mortgage paperwork just as this hit. The lender put the mortgage on hold due to a lack of verification of their most recent income. For many of the furloughed employees, this was a pay week (some would have been paid Tuesday and others today) and the payslip would show $0.

As a state employee (NV), a chunk o'cash goes toward my monthly health insurance premium each payday. Will the fed workers actually owe insurance premium or is it totally covered by the fed?

We've never been fully furloughed, but have had to take forced unpaid days off for quite a few years. The two days a month furlough hit our pocketbook hard. Missing an entire paycheck is an inconceivable idea to me.

Just like everything else in life, the better the policy the more it costs.

Depends on a myriad of things ranging from the cost as to how many are covered by the policy holder's policy.

It a rough deal no matter how you look at it! !!

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the federal government has picked up the cost of the employee's contribution of the premium and paid the provider. Once the shutdown is over and lump sum back pay is distributed by the agency, a retroactive deduction of the employee's contribution occurs.

The question will be how long they would be willing to do this if this drags on much longer as we are about to enter uncharted territory.

Let's hope this holds true this time. The last thing fed employees need is to worry about is losing insurance on top of everything else.

But, the fact that Congress had to pass a bill to say "we promise to give you retroactive pay when it's over" to reassure fed employees...doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence that employees will get a fair shake.

Appreciate the info!

and the House passed their own version of a retroactive pay bill today that is different from the Senate bill - i.e., it seeks to guarantee retroactive pay for this and any future shutdown (so they won't have to keep doing these bills every time there is a shutdown).

This means that the House bill will need to go to the Senate to be amended and/or passed (since there are 2 versions now) and if amended and passed in the Senate, it would need to go back to the House again to amend/vote on... and then back and forth until both chambers pass the identical bill...

The hope is that the Senate will go on and pass the House version and it will be signed into law by the WH but that remains to be seen (due to the scope change of the House bill).