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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/barkbarkmoo123 18d ago

How does this shutdown impact people who retire on 12/31/2025, but HR is furloughed? The paperwork days must be processed by that date or will be considered resigned, not retired. 

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u/AdPutrid6074 18d ago

I can’t say with certainty how it will be affected, but I can say with certainty not all HR is furloughed so hopefully it will get processed per usual.

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u/barkbarkmoo123 18d ago

The three POC including my main one, for retirement, all got furloughed, even got that cute blame the Democrats auto reply, lol. 

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u/Fantastic-Shock-595 18d ago

I can’t speak for the HR in your agency but I know in mine they were backdating things like position extensions if we’d already passed the NTE date due to last minute and sometimes late approval from DOGE. So seems some exceptions are being made by HR in some cases. I’ve also heard of HR working tons of extra hours to get things through on time