Normally by this time of the month (I believe) I get a notice in my bank account

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that my annuity is going to be paid out on the 1st of the month (which is exactly when I should be paid, according to the Feds). I think they're holding on to my check to gain interest on it for themselves between the time they get it and the time they release it to me, but that's another issue altogether. By heartburn and worry is...

This is 10/27. I have received NO notice from the bank yet. Normally, I think I'd have received it last Saturday, or today at the latest. But I may be remembering wrong because of my ending stress of when trump is going to work towards killing off us elderly. I don't remember my annuity being affected during other shutdowns, no more than my SS checks were. But damn it, my memory marbles just let one year glide into another without a lot of memory specificity... and it's driving me crazy! Does anyone else here on DU get an annuity from the DoD or other branch of the Federal government? What's your experience, and have you heard whether or not this shutdown will kill it? I could sure use someone talking me (gently) down from the ledge...!

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1. i've been paid up 'til now, but i expect him to stop paying retirement any month now.

our nation , the one i served and retired from, has been taken over by "private equity." buzzards who are busy stripping the nation of assets, which includes our pension and insurance systems.

i suppose, since i was too honest to take advantage of my position , i deserve to die under a tarp under the interstate,

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2. I hear you! I always took the "Service" of my job very seriously...

whether it was in my Active Duty days, or working with the DoD, or working at the Halfway House. I never made a lot of money, and now its really showing its face as I worry from month to month... but I got a lot of fulfillment serving others than I could with the money I could have earned. Besides, when I started out on my career, that "good" money didn't come to most people of my kind... women. We were always hired in at the lower pay scales; especially when it was the beginning on the information age, and most of the positions were filled by men. But as more and more women got hired and proved they were every bit as good in this age as men, the entire pay scale went down for everyone!

And all anyone had to say was "so and so" was bought out by XYZ Hedge Fund, and I knew there'd soon be a bankruptcy of the company. Hedge Funds and Private Equity entities should have been outlawed for how they handled their businesses, and stole from the companies AND from US!, IMO.