Federal Workers Recount Concerns Over Transit Payments, Qualifying for Mortgages and Other Shutdown Impacts
Government Executive | January 07, 2019
Federal employees on Monday said that the partial government shutdown, which entered its third week over the weekend, is already impacting their finances, even though they are not due to missing a paycheck until later this week. “Nearly 100 percent of our GS 5-13s live paycheck to paycheck,” said David Norken, an American Federation of Government Employees worker at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.