More than 1,000 TSA employees still await paychecks from shutdown

More than 1,000 Transportation Security Administration employees have not received their full paycheck for time worked during the partial government shutdown, reports CNN, and TSA is partially to blame.

Workers were given a portion of their paycheck during the shutdown to help alleviate some of their costs, which has ultimately contributed to the delay in compensating all employees, per CNN. TSA now has to manually go back and determine which employees have been paid and what back pay still remains.

Human resources representative for TSA Karen Shelton Waters said the decision to enact partial pay came just as the agency received funding again.

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"Our timing ... could not have been poorer in terms of when we executed partial pay. We actually got approval to do that almost simultaneously with the time funding was restored," Waters said.

A TSA official, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity, called the pay delay a self-inflicted wound. "It appears as though their effort to partially pay people screwed things up and they are still getting their act together," the anonymous official said.

The shutdown, which was the longest in U.S. history, ended on Jan. 25. The U.S. Interior Department said early last month that only a "small group of employees" were still waiting on back pay to be delivered.