Overview
- The administration plans to start payments on Saturday, Nov. 15, and aims to finish by Wednesday, Nov. 19, with the stopgap funding bill running through Jan. 30.
- After a 43-day shutdown, OMB’s agency-by-agency plan prioritizes initial deposits covering Oct. 1–Nov. 1 base pay, with overtime, hazard pay, and later days processed subsequently.
- About 12,400 General Services Administration and Office of Personnel Management employees are slated for Saturday processing, limited to base pay with corrections next pay cycle.
- On Sunday, Nov. 16, Defense Department civilians and employees at Veterans Affairs, Energy, and Health and Human Services are projected to receive checks that include overtime and hazard pay.
- More than 150,000 workers at Education, State, Interior, Transportation, EPA, NASA, NSF, NRC, and SSA are set for Monday, Nov. 17, base-pay processing, while Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, HUD, Justice, Labor, Treasury, and SBA are projected for Nov. 19 with full shutdown coverage.