Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Some Furloughed Federal Workers will likely get Paid Twice for Not Working

Some fortunate federal employees will likely get paid twice for not working this month. 
Several states are expected to allow federal workers who collected unemployment insurance during the government shutdown to keep both those benefits and the back pay they’re set to receive, according to the Labor Department.
Their decisions may add at least a few million dollars more to the shutdown’s still-untallied costs to taxpayers. Those include billions of dollars in federal workers’ lost productivity as well as lost fee income and other revenue from government services and functions that weren’t performed. The shutdown’s cost to the U.S. economy is even bigger — as much as $24 billion in the October-December period, economists estimate,
About 400,000 federal employees were furloughed during the 16-day shutdown. The legislation that reopened the government last week provides retroactive pay for the furloughed workers.
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