800,000 government workers may need financial assistance as shutdown continues

[Right_in_Virginia]

800,000 government workers may need financial assistance as shutdown continues
NBC News, Dec 28, 2018, Doha Madani

Nonprofit organizations and private companies are working to provide financial assistance to roughly 800,000 people who won't receive regularly scheduled paychecks as Congress failed Thursday to vote on a resolution to end the partial government shutdown.

The Office of Personnel Management, which handles human resources for the government's civilian workforce, advised thousands of employees who won't be paid during government shutdown to reach out to creditors to work out alternative payment schedules.

The office released sample letters Thursday on Twitter to show shutdown workers how to ask for help from mortgage companies and landlords.

"As we discussed, I am a Federal employee who has recently been furloughed due to a lack of funding of my agency," one sample letter reads. "Because of this, my income has been severely cut and I am unable to pay the entire cost of my mortgage, along with my other expenses."

A fact sheet compiled by Senate Democrat staffers estimated roughly 420,000 federal employees would still be required to work without pay, while an additional 380,000 would be sent home, or furloughed, without pay. In the past, government employees have usually received back pay at the end of shutdowns.


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[andy58-in-nh]

The phrase "800,000 government workers" rather succinctly explains the nature of the problem.

[Right_in_Virginia]

380,000 non-essential personnel.  Here's the funding for the wall on the Southern AND Northern borders.

[DCPatriot]

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!

[skeeter]

Here in California government employees can just ask their relatives back in the home country send them a care package until its over.

[txradioguy]

The Federal payday is today.  The next one is the 14th.  The only financial crisis right now is in the fevered imagination of the left.

[mountaineer]

Give me a break.  When I was a state employee (MO), we were paid once a month. These people,  who earn more than their private sector counterparts,  can't budget?

[berdie]

The Federal payday is today.  The next one is the 14th.  The only financial crisis right now is in the fevered imagination of the left.

That's what I thought.

[EdJames]

The phrase "800,000 government workers" rather succinctly explains the nature of the problem.

Bingo!

[EdJames]

380,000 non-essential personnel.  Here's the funding for the wall on the Southern AND Northern borders.

Bingo! **2

[austingirl]

Non essential "workers" doing meaningless work making sure unconstitutional meaningless regulations are followed at 40-50% more than a private sector employee makes who actually produces something of value- well cry me a river.

[mountaineer]

380,000 non-essential personnel.  Here's the funding for the wall on the Southern AND Northern borders.

Just think if the department of education were eliminated -and how much wall could be built with that funding.

[Snarknado]

Don't these shutdowns always end up being a paid vacation for the ones who don't work and double pay for the ones who do?

[GtHawk]

Just think if the department of education were eliminated -and how much wall could be built with that funding.

Just think if that wall were built, how much more education money there would be to educate legal Americans. Maybe we we wouldn't constantly be harangued for more and more and more education dollars while seeing less actual educating.

[Smokin Joe]

Give me a break.  When I was a state employee (MO), we were paid once a month. These people,  who earn more than their private sector counterparts,  can't budget?

Exactly. If the rest of us are supposed to endure the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, like the oil patch going dead after a boom--for a couple of years sometimes--you'd think those on a steady paycheck would put a little away for a rainy day. They can budget, with a predictable income, and include savings in the package.

[Oceander]

Just think if that wall were built, how much more education money there would be to educate legal Americans. Maybe we we wouldn't constantly be harangued for more and more and more education dollars while seeing less actual educating.

No wall is going to stop visa overstays, and right now they constitute 40% of all illegals. 

[Victoria33]

It is sad those here are dumping on government workers.  Eight hunred thousand people took a job, have done their work and won't get paid.  These are workers with families, just like you.  One man's wife died and he won't get a pay check today, and can't put a headstone at her grave.

Trump had a letter put on line so workers can print a letter to give to their mortgage company, their power company, others, to tell them they are not getting paid. Trump only thinks of himself and his family, and no one else.  He said workers without their paycheck are Democrats - that means he doesn't care if they die.

[Axeslinger]

It is sad those here are dumping on government workers.  Eighty thousand people took a job, have done their work and won't get paid.  These are workers with families, just like you.  One man's wife died and he won't get a pay check today, and can't put a headstone at her grave.

Trump had a letter put on line so workers can print a letter to give to their mortgage company, their power company, others, to tell them they are not getting paid. Trump only thinks of himself and his family, and no one else.  He said workers without their paycheck are Democrats - that means he doesn't care if they die.

@Victoria33
Well this is about six different threads where you are whining about the shutdown being entirely trumps fault and those poor, poor non-essential workers not getting paid.  You can feel free to stop stating the same drivel again and again.  We get your point...you’re wrong but we get it.

 

[Axeslinger]

Exactly. If the rest of us are supposed to endure the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, like the oil patch going dead after a boom--for a couple of years sometimes--you'd think those on a steady paycheck would put a little away for a rainy day. They can budget, with a predictable income, and include savings in the package.

@Smokin Joe
ESPECIALLY (!!!) knowing that they are vulnerable to the whims of politics at any time!

 But, the vast majority of them are liberal democrats so logic, self reliance and responsibility aren’t their strong suits

[Victoria33]

@Victoria33
Well this is about six different threads where you are whining about the shutdown being entirely trumps fault and those poor, poor non-essential workers not getting paid. 

I posted this morning on TWO threads about the shutdown.  Threads are here for our comments.  Put me on ignore and you won't see them.

[Oceander]

@Victoria33
Well this is about six different threads where you are whining about the shutdown being entirely trumps fault and those poor, poor non-essential workers not getting paid.  You can feel free to stop stating the same drivel again and again.  We get your point...you’re wrong but we get it.

 

Didn’t Trump say on national TV that he would be happy to accept full responsibility for a shutdown?  He bought it; he owns it. 

[Axeslinger]

Didn’t Trump say on national TV that he would be happy to accept full responsibility for a shutdown?  He bought it; he owns it.

@Oceander

Don’t necessarily disagree w that.  Disagree w the notion about those poor poor NON-ESSENTIAL workers being so abused by this.  First:  if they’re NE, they shouldn’t have jobs to begin with.  Second: they should be bright enough to know that this is a possibility. 

[mountaineer]

I find it interesting that the Dems aren't being "credited" with the lion's share of responsibility for this shutdown. The administration side has offered to give a little on the wall funding demand, but the Dems refuse even to play ball.

Edit to add: What was I thinking? Nancy Pelosi desperately needed some "down time" in Hawaii before taking the reins of the House.  And some spa time.

[Bigun]

The phrase "800,000 government workers" rather succinctly explains the nature of the problem.

Yep!   

[Bigun]

Text of the message I left for my Congressman and Senators this morning on their websites:

WHY do we have even one "non-essential" government employee much less 380,000 of them???