{"id":262077,"date":"2025-10-31T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262077\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:43:07","slug":"is-nasa-pulling-back-on-retroactive-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262077\/","title":{"rendered":"Is NASA Pulling Back On Retroactive Pay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WIll-and-If-3.png\" alt=\"Is NASA Pulling Back On Retroactive Pay?\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                                                            \u201cWill\u201d and \u201cIf\u201d do not mean the same thing. \u2014 NASAWatch.com                                                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>Keith\u2019s note: If you have been through a typical NASA design review then you know that words have meaning. As noted the other day (see <a href=\"https:\/\/nasawatch.com\/personnel-news\/nasa-email-upcoming-second-formal-furlough-notice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Email: Upcoming Second Formal Furlough Notice<\/a>) NASA folks are getting those new 30 day furlough notices. There is a significant difference in language from round 1 and round 2. The first round letter says you \u201cWILL be receiving retroactive pay \u2026\u201d In the second letter it says \u201cIF you receive retroactive pay\u201d. \u201cWill\u201d and \u201cIf\u201d are not the same thing. In other words there is some doubt that everyone will get retroactive pay \u2013 right? You know this because NASA has an army of crack lawyers (who are all currently on furlough) who read these words very, very carefully \u2013 and always say what they mean and mean what they say, right? Sounds like someone may be slow rolling people out of retroactive pay. Exact text excerpts below.<\/p>\n<p>Round 1: \u201cPlease note that since you will be receiving retroactive pay at the conclusion of the shutdown furlough, if you receive unemployment compensation for the shutdown furlough, you will be required to repay the unemployment compensation funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Round 2: \u201cPlease note that if you receive retroactive pay at the conclusion of the shutdown furlough, and you received Unemployment Compensation for the shutdown furlough, you will be required to repay the Unemployment Compensation funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1013\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-9.45.09-PM-1013x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20577\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWill\u201d and \u201cIf\u201d do not mean the same thing. \u2014 NASAWatch.com Keith\u2019s note: If you have been through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[112563,141303,1541,79,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-262077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-furlough","9":"tag-https-nasawatch-com-shutdown-is-nasa-pulling-back-on-retroactive-pay-shutdown","10":"tag-personnel","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}