Government Shutdown

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Lostplanet22 said:

totalwar23 said:

I'm a member of the Armed Force and my C.O. just explained to us today that they will stop paying us after the 8th. I had no clue this was going to happen. It's the first Goverment S/D that the military doesn't get pay. Wonder how they'll explain this to the people who are fighting overseas?

I heard they will get paid, maybe not for the ones who are not doing any service at the moment?  Why should a police officer get paid and someone fighting in Afghanistan not?

We had a similar brief from our C.O. on base, but it is discretionary based on the assumption that no budget is passed.  I looked into it and apparently if they did pass something by this coming tuesday, DFAS could still process our pay by the 15th.  If not, either way DFAS will process a so-called "emergency payday" so when funds are appropriated to the government, we will get our pay when that happens, even if it is in the middle of pay periods.  

There is so much commition going on with this issue, however I'm confident something will be resolved in the coming days.  If you have a Navy Fed account BTW you will receive your pay regardless.  They serve all branches so regardless of which branch you are in you can check it out.  Information is on their homepage.