What effect will a govt shutdown have on social security payments?

[bobbieinok]

A concern for many of us.

[Keefer]

1. None.

By law, checks still go out.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Damned good thing to know.

90% of our income comes from our Social Security checks.

[bobbieinok]

6. Something similar true for many of us

[doc03]

2. Government shut down? What government shut down? nt

[BumRushDaShow]

5. If the current Continuing Resolution that expires December 8th

is not extended or full appropriations for fiscal year 2018 are not enacted and signed into law, then the government will shut down.

In the recent past (notably 2013), Congress started to cherry-pick which things were considered "essential" and ordered those agencies/personnel to work, so they manufactured a "See? No effect!!111!!!!" while stressing out hundreds of thousands of government workers who were furloughed and killing the paychecks for hundreds of thousands of government contractors, all while the media whined and pointed at what they think is the only "government service" that is "important" that gets shut down, and that is the National Parks.

[doc03]

8. Republicans shut down the government Democrats won't nt

[nitpicker]

3. From Wikipedia:

During the shutdown, most non-exempt government employees were furloughed. That would have put about 800,000 public employees on indefinite unpaid leave starting October 1.[126] The White House estimated that a one-week shutdown could have cost the US economy $10 billion.[127] Key government functions, such as air traffic control, stay active under emergency funding statutes, though other related functions (such as training and support of these services) would be suspended. Some agencies and departments—such as the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and Social Security Administration—are funded by long-term or mandatory appropriations and were also largely unaffected. While veteran and military benefits are funded a year in advance, furloughed civilians had a large impact on the military and their families. Services to families on bases ranging from commissaries to family and survivor counseling were affected.[128] Since the United States Postal Service is self-funded, it was unaffected and continued normal operations.[123][129] The United States Merchant Marine Academy was closed for operations during the shutdown massively impacting the curriculum and schedule.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Especially since they no longer mail out actual checks.

Haven't done so in years. I suspect that the electronic deposits are set up to happen quite automatically. It would be distantly possible that recipients getting SS for the very first time this month might be affected, but probably not.