Even after shutdown, some federal workers could face enforcement for missed child-support payments
Meanwhile, parents and children still do not have relief as they wait for paychecks to resume.
In the hours before President Trump announced a deal to end the government shutdown, Julio Salado said he felt like a prisoner in his own house. The furloughed federal corrections officer in Miami had 99 cents in his bank account and no money for gasoline, he said.
But a thousand miles away in Puerto Rico, three of Salado’s children were also feeling the weight of the government shutdown. Every two weeks, $600 in child support is garnished from Salado’s paycheck and distributed between his 11-year-old daughter and two older sons.
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