From the IRS to social security payments, here’s how a government shutdown might affect federal agencies and programs.
The IRS chief counsel, the official who interprets tax law for the agency, has consistently held that government workers can remain on the job
during shutdowns only if their duties protect the government, as opposed to individuals. That means ordinary taxpayers could be more exposed to financial hardship. For example, when the government shut down for 35 days in late 2018 and early 2019, employees from the Taxpayer Advocate Service, the agency’s internal consumer rights watchdog, could open mail only in search of checks payable to the government,Furthermore, at the start of that
shutdown, the roughly 12 percent of IRS employees who remained on the job couldn’t answer taxpayer phone calls, issue tax refunds, release liens and levies or complete a bevy of other taxpayer services, . As the shutdown dragged on closer to the filing season, which begins around Jan. 1 each year, the tax agency exemptedNaNThe roughly 1.3 million active-duty U.S. military service members would remain on the job without pay during a government shutdown. They would receive backpay after the shutdown ends, as would all the other federal workers forced to keep working during the period.
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