{"id":1077,"date":"2025-11-06T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:42:16","slug":"government-shutdown-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/2025\/11\/06\/government-shutdown-things-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Need to Know as a Furloughed Federal Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. When the government shutdown ends, you will get paid for the time you were furloughed.<\/li>\n
  2. You cannot volunteer to work.<\/li>\n
  3. You cannot use annual leave or other paid time off as an alternative to being furloughed.<\/li>\n
  4. Your health insurance coverage will continue.<\/li>\n
  5. Payments into your federal retirement plan accounts cease when you enter nonpay status.<\/li>\n
  6. Your years of service toward your retirement will not be affected by a short-term government shutdown.<\/li>\n
  7. You should not use any government-provided information technology, including laptops and cell phones, except to check for updates on furlough or recall (return to work) status intermittently.<\/li>\n
  8. You may be entitled to unemployment compensation depending on your state\u2019s unemployment compensation requirements.<\/li>\n
  9. You need to be cautious about taking on a second job.<\/li>\n
  10. You can take action to pressure Congress to end the shutdown.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    More details<\/strong><\/a> on these items are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have you been furloughed under the Government Shutdown? You need to read this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/09\/2025-09-17-closed-sign-MO.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}