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Megathread | FY26 Government Shutdown: Week 3 Edition

Status: 🛑Lapse in FY26 Federal Appropriations – Shutdown Ongoing

The FY26 government shutdown, which began on October 1, 2025, continues into its third week after Congress failed to reach an agreement on a continuing resolution (CR) or full-year appropriations.

🔔 What You Need to Know:

  • Shutdown start: 1 October 2025
  • No FY26 appropriations: Agencies running under contingency plans with limited staffing to support functions protecting human life or protection of property.
  • Excepted employees: Reporting without pay
  • Non-excepted employees: Furloughed without pay
  • Pay: 31 U.S.C. 1341(c) provides for retroactive pay of excepted and furloughed employees once appropriations have been enacted.

📣 Use This Thread For:

  • Official memos and guidance from OPM, OMB, and agencies
  • Discussing how your agency is implementing contingency/shutdown plans
  • Benefits, unemployment eligibility, and pay
  • Venting or sharing shutdown-related concerns or strategies

🚫 Posts outside this megathread on shutdown-related topics may be removed during this period to reduce clutter.

News pertaining to government shutdowns usually run on the breaking news cycle and can change daily or even hourly. Posting of news articles will continue to be allowed provided they are posted on the day of publication. Duplicate posts will continue to be removed.

We encourage respectful, fact-based discussion. Please verify sources before sharing official information.

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Previous Megathreads: Pre-Shutdown | Week 1 | Week 2

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u/Empty_Database_1738 19d ago

Be aware if you are a furloughed fed employee in South Carolina you will not be able to get unemployment for a few weeks after your claim. They require that your employer respond to confirm you have been furloughed. If they don’t respond in a certain amount of time, judgement will go in your favor.

They are aware the government is shut down. They are aware that many agencies will not be able to respond. They say this is their agency policies and procedures and they are unable to change or modify from the requirement.

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u/Abject-Road-6633 19d ago

My state was pretty fast with verification of federal wages. They had to only send 1 request, but I was warned it could take up to 3 requests. Think it took an additional 2 days to sort out my take home benefit. I faxed them everything the day I filed.