Shutdown windfall: Oregon fed employees will get back pay, won't repay unemployment

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...rnment-workers-could-be-paid-twice-in-oregon/​

Some federal workers who were furloughed in Oregon could be getting paid twice, with a state official confirming to Fox News that those workers who received state unemployment benefits during the partial government shutdown will not have to re-pay the money.

The spokesman for WorkSource Oregon Employment Department said the workers received at most a week’s worth of unemployment benefits. The spokesman said he did not know how many workers received the benefits.

He confirmed that furloughed federal workers in the state do not have to re-pay the state unemployment benefits.

Do you suppose the state of Oregon is so magnanimous with other unemployed workers who wind up getting vacation pay or bonuses they weren't expecting?

And what's "a week's worth of benefits" anyway? For how many thousands of federal workers living in Oregon? Peanuts. Right? :BangHead: