Shout out to Dave Draper and Dave Sims for sending out a list of companies offering shutdown relief.\u00a0 The list applies to Federal civilian employees as well as military.\u00a0 The list is at:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-30-Chap-304-Companies-Offer-Shutdown-Relief.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Dave Draper is with American Legion Post 46 Ann Arbor,\u00a0https:\/\/www.legion46annarbor.org\/<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Dave Sims, Director of the Michigan Association of County Veteran Counselors,\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.macvc.net\/<\/a>, assembled the listing for Michigan veterans and their families.<\/p>\n The bolding on the NARFE listing is mine.\u00a0\u00a0I did not vet the entire list.\u00a0\u00a0However, spot checks on businesses and phone numbers track with information received from other channels-with the exception of the OPM listing.\u00a0\u00a0A link to a likely similar letter on the VA site was inserted by me.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 List of companies offering 2025 shutdown relief to those impacted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14-News-3-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPam Liebegott
\nChapter 0304 Newsletter Editor and Service Officer
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