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• On Tuesday, the Trump admin said furloughed feds were not guaranteed back pay. On Wednesday, it sent notices saying they were - October 8, 2025

• By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  The Internal Revenue Service, like many agencies around government, has weathered the shutdown by using existing funds to keep employees on the job.
  
  By Wednesday morning, however, those funds had run dry and the agency began sending furlough notices to tens of thousands of workers. Effective immediately, they would be sent home and no longer working for as long as the government remains closed.
  
  The notices contained largely boilerplate language, with one excerpt of note:
  
  “Although you will be placed in non-pay and non-duty status during the furlough, the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 requires employees of the federal government who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations to be compensated for the period of the lapse,” the messages read, according to multiple copies obtained by Government Executive. “The employees must be compensated on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.”

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