US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages

Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by AlexTWithBeard on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:11AM (#18999218)

First two results returned by searching for "federal shutdown loan" show 0% interest loans:

https://www.navyfederal.org/about/government-shutdown.php https://www.interiorfcu.org/resources/government-shutdown/

I don't see how is it predatory.

Considering that it costs bank about 2% to borrow money this is borderline charity.

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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by mikeash on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:15AM (#18999283)

Those are credit unions aimed at federal employees. Which means that a large chunk of their ownership is people affected by the shutdown. That’s not charity so much as helping themselves. Which is still great, obviously, but I wonder how it is for affected people who don’t belong to federal employee credit unions.

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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by AlexTWithBeard on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:43AM (#18999688)

Chase and Citi have similar programs as well:

https://online.citi.com/JRS/pands/detail.do?ID=USGovShutdown...

https://media.chase.com/news/chase-assists-federal-employees...

It's one of those cases when every dime in interest will cost you a dollar in reputation.

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