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

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published 1 March 2019

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.

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Marianne is The Weekâ€™s Social Media Editor. She is a native Tennessean and recent graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism and political science. Marianne has previously written for The Daily Beast, The Crime Report, and The Moroccan Times.

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