TSA to Give Officers Partial Pay for Work During Government Shutdown
Source: NBC 4 New York
The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it will issue a partial paycheck to most employees as thousands of other federal workers are set to miss a second biweekly paycheck, marking nearly a month since they were last paid.
TSA Administrator David P. Pekoske said the agency scraped together limited funds from varying sources in order to pay a portion of their workforce.
Employees "at the I-band and below," who worked in an exempted status for any amount of time from Dec. 23 to Jan. 5 will receive 40 hours of pay "to alleviate some financial strain," the TSA said. Employees in pay bands J and above, which are senior level positions with higher pay rates, will not receive a partial payment Friday.
"Challenging times require challenging decisions. While our aim is to pay everyone for their work, during this period of lapse in funding and because of legal and financial constraints, we needed to make decisions on how best to support the workforce using the limited funds we had," the agency said in statement to NBC News. "As such, it was determined that where we could, we would provide partial pay to employees and we focused on employees in the lower pay bands to help alleviate the financial strain they may be experiencing."
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Didn't see this posted anywhere else!
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It's really horrible that people can be so callous and evil but here we are. 
Listening to our Democratic leaders right now.
that impacted me (I have since retired). They were cherry-picking funding to agencies or parts of agencies in order to try to sustain the closures while attempting to thwart the complaints from the public. 
