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A Government Shutdown and Your Social Security Benefit
QZ.com White House correspondent Heather Timmons provides insight into the ruling that “… essential services and mandatory spending programs continue to function” in the event of a government shutdown. With such an event looming potentially for later this week, her article points out that “Mail is delivered, as are Social Security checks and Medicaid payments” during a shutdown, while furloughs are realized by “non-essential discretionary functions until new funding legislation is passed and signed into law.” Read Ms. Timmons’ analysis here…