From unpaid leave to parental and military leave, federal workers have multiple options for time off under specific ...

Some federal workers who are not being paid during the government shutdown have a nagging fear: They might not receive retroactive pay once the impasse is resolved. Roughly 1.4 million federal ...

For more than two weeks now during the government shutdown, Imelda Avila-Thomas has been trying in vain to get approved for unemployment compensation to help cover essentials such as food and mortgage ...

Explore how federal-state unemployment programs offer temporary aid to eligible workers who lose jobs through no fault of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not every federal employee who is going without pay because of the government shutdown can draw on state unemployment insurance benefits to cover the gap.

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