Article snippet: Vacations canceled. Attractions closed. Christmas services postponed. The impacts of a partial government shutdown are extending well beyond Washington, D.C., and the government workers who live there. This Christmas, Transportation Security Administration agents and air traffic controllers are working without pay during the busiest travel days of the year. They will be probably paid retroactively, but workers don't know when that paycheck will hit their bank accounts. Some law enforcement agents — such as FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement workers and officers at correctional facilities — were forced to cancel long-planned Christmas vacation. If they qualify as essential personnel, they are required to work during a government shutdown or face indefinite furlough. “The big thing is, it’s already a very tough job,” Justin Tarovisky, a correctional officer at West Virginia's Hazelton penitentiary, told The New York Times. “But when you know that you’ve got to go to work and you’re not going to be paid for it — or it’s going to be late, no matter what — it really brings you down.” During a 2013 shutdown, National Weather Service employees were forced to work without knowing when they'd be paid next. To draw awareness, the workers in the Anchorage office sent a coded message in a forecast that spelled out: "Please pay us." This time, Americans nationwide shared their personal shutdown-related financial concerns using the hashtag #ShutdownStories. The hash... Link to the full article to read more