Payday without pay hits federal workers as shutdown drags on
Posted January 10, 2019 11:13 am.
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OGDEN, Utah — Payday will come Friday without any checks for about 800,000 federal employees affected by the government shutdown. That means some workers will have to scale back spending, cancel trips, apply for unemployment or take out loans to stay afloat.
Among them is IRS employee Krystle Kirkpatrick.
She and her family, including two children, ages 6 and 12, aren’t eating out, buying brand foods or getting drinks at the gas station. Her husband is working overtime in his job as a machinist to try to make up for her lost paycheque.
Her mortgage company informed her it won’t let her skip a payment.
She says: “It’s a very scary feeling.”
The shutdown enters its 21st day Friday.
Brady McCombs And Juliet Linderman, The Associated Press
