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What happens to payments for medical insurance and other critical items for employees?
Do they all lose their benefits?
Can they collect unemployment benefits?
Very few federal jobs are considered essential, in the overseas environment, local hires will carry on, and get paid.
From what I understand health benefits will continue but dental will not.
Yes, they can collect unemployment, but if the conditions of unemployment is that they are actively seeking a job, then at least for my husband he would not qualify, his service agreement states he cannot seek alternate employment while employeed by his agency.
From what I understand health benefits will continue but dental will not.
Yes, they can collect unemployment, but if the conditions of unemployment is that they are actively seeking a job, then at least for my husband he would not qualify, his service agreement states he cannot seek alternate employment while employeed by his agency.
But he's not employed by his agency during a shutdown, is he?
Overseas employees who I work with are really in a mess.
A lot of people in the nation are also going to miss the National Weather Service, if the shut down the government, especially with tornado season coming.
Then maybe this will prove once and for all that we need to start shifting some of these things to the states, where they belong.
Then maybe this will prove once and for all that we need to start shifting some of these things [back] to the states, where they belong.
I corrected your post, since it was the federal government that usurped those state powers in the first place.
If states want to establish social programs, institute health care reform, or regulate intrastate commerce, they have that constitutional authority. Whereas the federal government does not.
But he's not employed by his agency during a shutdown, is he?
Overseas employees who I work with are really in a mess.
My husband works in the National Security field and his service agreement states that despite the fact he will be furloughed he is still employeed, when the shutdown if it occurs is over he will go back work, I am sure each department has different procedures.
you mean the dumbocrat 'we can cut spending' shutdown
liberals will never get it
its the spending that's killing us
Yeah the spending is killing us. According to reports both sides have agreed to around 33 Billion in cuts. The Republicans’ are pushing for 40 Billion in cuts. I find it comical that both sides are willing to let the shutdown occur for 7 Billion dollars! We need to cut spending but allowing the government to shut down for that measly amount is comical. This will not do any favors to our struggling economy. If 800,000 federal employees and countless contractors are furloughed for a long period of time this will end up costing the tax payers more than the 7 billion they are trying to save.
This is only to fund the government for the next 6 months. I believe the Republicans would be better off just accepting what the democrats have agreed to and use next year’s budget as the time to exercise the "mandate" handed to them by the voters.
Yes it is. They have no problem breathing bad air or drinking dirty water.
We have in income of about 2.5 trillion a year. We spend about 3.7 trillion a year IIRC. We're pizzing around discussing 40 billion a year in cuts. So rather than a defecit of 1.7 trillion dollars, we'll have one of 1.66 trillion. Both parties are foolish, we can't continue to spend 50% more than we bring in. How can people on both sides of the aisle be this flippin' stupid?
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