Have you been personally affected by the government shutdown? NO POLITICAL COMMENTS!

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<p>I have seen local stories about Johnson Space Center where 3200 are federal employees while 11,000 are contractors. The contractors are 20% furloughed now but it hits 60% this week and 90% by end of the month. The furloughed are not expected to be paid.</p>

<p>[White</a> Paper on NASA Johnson Space Center Shutdown Impacts - SpaceRef](<a href=“http://spaceref.com/congress/white-paper-on-nasa-johnson-space-center-shutdown-impacts.html]White”>http://spaceref.com/congress/white-paper-on-nasa-johnson-space-center-shutdown-impacts.html)</p>

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<p>Niece furloughed from her OSHA management job. So much for the security of working for the federal government- one of her job search criteria when her H got out of military and they moved.</p>

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<p>Yup. My brand new nephew can’t get a social security number during the shut down. Which means they can’t sign him up for health insurance. Sure hope it’s over before his 30 days to be added are up.</p>

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<p>Judging by the fact that they have one or two days until they default…something will happen before his 30 days are up.</p>

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<p>Looks to be resolved. For now .</p>

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<p>So there you go! The sky did not fall, after all. Now, when do we do this again?</p>

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<p>[Sources:</a> Senate reaches deal to end shutdown, avoid default - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-showdown/]Sources:”>http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-showdown/)</p>

<p>Just in time…eh?</p>

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My guess is we’ll see ballsy stand-offs as these until 2016.</p>

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<p>It’s NOT over. The Senate has a deal, but neither house has yet voted on the proposal.</p>

509

<p>They will. They no choice. Done.</p>

510

<p>Meanwhile though, baby is going home without either</p>

511

<p>Actually, SS and Medicare will answer phones, I believe. S will be returning to work in the near future to piles of backlog, like many, many others. Our DOH has been told they can’t pay contractors until the shutdown is over and only salaries will be paid, out of special funds if needed.</p>

<p>I’m really sick of this and sadly agree that we are likely to see more of this bad behaviors, including when this pending bill expires in early January–just when holiday bills are coming in!</p>

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<p>Well, it’s been fun, guys. </p>

<p><a href=“Government Gets Back to Business, but Effects of the Shutdown Linger - The New York Times”>Government Gets Back to Business, but Effects of the Shutdown Linger - The New York Times;

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<p>The panda cam is back!!!</p>

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<p>I have an update on my issue of trying to refinance our home loan in the middle of the shutdown. Part of our income is Social Security Disability and the lender had demanded a letter from Social Security guaranteeing our income for three years. The SSA was shut down and was not providing letters of income.</p>

<p>We were able to get H’s doctor to sign a letter stating permanent disability and it worked! I have no idea how the lender got around the Fannie Mae guideline for the income verification, but our refinance will be closing soon. Hope they don’t turn around now and demand letter from SSA and hold everything up :)</p>

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<p>Yay for pandacam! collegenavigator.gov is up and running again, too.</p>

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<p>My tween was excited the shutdown was over was effected as she has a project involving NASA mars expedition that was on hold.</p>