How a government shutdown affects Social Security payments: What you need to know
If the federal government shuts down this weekend, work at numerous publicly funded agencies would slow or stop altogether, while millions of government employees would stop receiving paychecks.
If the federal government shuts down this weekend, work at numerous publicly funded agencies would slow or stop altogether, while millions of government employees would stop receiving paychecks.
But Social Security benefits would still go out.
Social Security is considered a mandatory program, and it's not funded by the shorter-term continuing-resolution bills that have kept the government operating in recent years amid Washington political gridlock.
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Some 72.8 million people receive monthly Social Security benefits. Those benefits go primarily to retirees, but also to people with disabilities, as well as dependents of deceased beneficiaries.
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