Some Furloughed Federal Employees Get Unemployment Benefits Along With Back Pay

It's nice non-work, if you can get it

Some fortunate federal employees will likely get paid twice for not working this month.

Several states are expected to allow federal workers who collected unemployment insurance during the government shutdown to keep both those benefits and the back pay they're set to receive, according to the Labor Department.

Their decisions may add at least a few million dollars more to the shutdown's still-untallied costs to taxpayers.