Federal workers must repay jobless benefits from shutdown
Carla Caldwell, Morning Edition Editor
The U.S. Labor Department says federal employees who collected unemployment insurance during the 16-day government shutdown must return the money because workers will receive back pay.
USA Today reports that about 70,000 of the 400,000 federal employees furloughed during the shutdown applied for jobless benefits, but that a much smaller number took the steps required to receive them.
Federal workers collected the payments for one week because they worked during parts of the shutdown's first and third weeks, the paper said.
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