The partial shutdown of the federal government is causing some financial problems for furloughed workers who can’t refinance their mortgages or buy homes because lenders can’t verify their income. But unpaid federal employees aren’t the only ones running into problems.
Libby Anderson, for example, got her final divorce decree on Tuesday. She’d hoped that would mean her ex-husband would finally move out of their Des Moines, Iowa, home, where they’ve been living separate lives under one roof for eight months.
“I mean, we were really going to take care of it today — the day after it was final — and then he would be out,” Anderson, a marketing researcher, said in an interview on Wednesday.
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