Potential Shutdown Support for EPA Employees and EPA SEE Enrollees
AT THIS TIME THIS PROGRAM HAS NOT BEE ACTIVATED​​
Check this site on or after October 22, 2025, to find out if or when the EPA Alumni Association plans to activate this Shutdown Support Program.
There is again a strong possibility of a prolonged Federal government shutdown. If such a prolonged shutdown occurs, we anticipate that some EPA employees and EPA's Senior Environmental Employment enrollees (SEE) may experience difficulty in putting food on the table or buying essential medicines as a result of the shutdown.
In 2019 when this occurred, the Association conducted a Shutdown Support program to provide a small amount of assistance to some of these individuals. The Association is prepared to conduct a similar program if such a prolonged Federal government shutdown occurs. Check this site on or after October 22, 2025, to find out if and when the EPA Alumni Association plans to activate their Shutdown Support Program.
AS OF THIS DATE, THIS PROGRAM HAS NOT BEEN ACTIVATED.
Quick Summary
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EPA Employees and SEE Enrollees working at EPA who have had their pay interrupted by the lapse in appropriations and are having trouble putting food on the table or buying needed medicines as a result of the shutdown are eligible to request assistance from the EPA Alumni Association Members.
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2025 Shutdown Support Background
The EPA Alumni Association knows that some EPA employees and SEE Enrollees working at the Agency may face serious financial hardship as a result of a prolonged government shutdown. As we did in 2019, the Association is facilitating assistance from our Alumni members for these EPA employees and EPA SEE enrollees.
The Association is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of former EPA employees, founded in 2008, with approximately 3,100 members who served as EPA employees. More information can be found at www.EPAalumni.com. Current EPA employees who are retirement eligible are invited to join the Association. Under current federal ethics rules, these current EPA employees can give only $10 to each potential recipient.​
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Ethics rules provide that no Federal employee may receive cash gifts. Additionally, employees cannot accept more than $20 in the form of a non-cash gift at any one time from a particular person or entity ($10 from a current employee).
These gift cards will come from specified grocery stores and drug store chains. They will be electronic "cards" sent by email or physical cards sent by postal mail. Recipients can choose the chain store that they would prefer. All of this will be done by using personal email addresses.
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