It's facebook. I take that into account.
The Facebook for defense finance is run and monitored by Dfas. It is used to disseminate information useful to its 'customers', a big piece of which are military and veterans whose pay is processed by DFAS. Dfas starting using social media sites as a nod to it being a tool used regularly by the folks they serve as an appropriate avenue to get information to end users quicker.
Now to the issue at hand. The information referencing this was directly from OPMs information. I'll cut and p it here for good measure:
OPM FAQ site, "READ OUR FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
In case of a potential government shutdown, the Department of Defense will have no legal authority to pay any personnel - military or civilian - for the days during which the government is shut down. The shutdown will not affect payments to retirees and annuitants as those funds come from a retirement trust fund. Below is the effect the government shutdown will have on active duty military, civilian personnel, retirees and annuitants, and DoD contractors.
Military: Active, Reserve, and National Guard members will be paid on time for pay entitlements earned September 30 or earlier. Military members cannot be paid for duty performed after the expiration of the current CRA on September 30. Once another CRA or an appropriations act is signed into law, normal disbursement of military pay will resume.
Civilians: All civilian employees will be paid on their normal pay date for all entitlements earned through September 30. After September 30, the following rules apply:
Excepted employees who perform duty during the shutdown will be entitled to retroactive payments once another CRA or an appropriations act is signed into law.
For furloughed employees, Congress will have to provide authority for retroactive payments to be made.
Employees whose organizations have available resources such as Defense Working Capital Fund, will be paid as normal until such time as cash reserves are exhausted.
Non Appropriate Fund (NAF) civilian employees: Your pay will be processed and paid as normal.
Retirees: Military retirees and annuitants are not paid from Continuing Resolution Act (CRA) appropriations, so those payments will continue as scheduled.
DoD Contractors: As a revolving fund organization, so long as the Department's Working Capital Fund has adequate funds for normal operations, DFAS will continue to make contract and vendor payments."
