Property tax relief for the furloughed?

[Anonymous]

Tax is due in December. When is this going to be over?

[Anonymous]

Navy Fed Credit Union is offering zero interest loans for qualified members. Who knows when it will end. These are unusual times.

[Anonymous]

Try your savings.

[Anonymous]

How much do you need?
Credit cards give cash advances for 4-5%. With plenty of credit available, you can have those loans for decades like I do.
Also, are you allowed to work during furlough? My kid just got a job with no experience. He will make $4k in 2026 working part time getting paid $18. There's no contracts and he can leave any time. If you have some experience and can work full time, you'd make $36+ an hour.
There's so much work out there if you live in or near DC. I'm unable to leave my $40+ an hour job because we cannot find workers.
I did joke that the Feds are coming soon and boss can let me go. They haven't yet.

[Anonymous]

No.
Never happens.

[Anonymous]

Maybe... They did give an extra month for the car tax deadline.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/taxes/vehicle-taxes-due-october-6-what-you-need-know-2025

[Anonymous]

It will be over when the 2026 health insurance costs come out and the fertilizer hits the fan. That's when non-furloughed people wake up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be over when the 2026 health insurance costs come out and the fertilizer hits the fan. That's when non-furloughed people wake up.

Exactly right. So many people don't even realize they are benefitting from ACA subsidies or even know they are on an ACA plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe... They did give an extra month for the car tax deadline.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/taxes/vehicle-taxes-due-october-6-what-you-need-know-2025

OP here. I wish I knew this earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try your savings.

This. Regular people don't get help paying property taxes. It's socialism and evil af to even have taxes on land/housing.

[Anonymous]

I feel terrible for people who have been furloughed, but we didn't get any relief from taxes or bills and certainly no special loan offers when my husband lost his job last year. We just had to dip into our savings. It took him six months to find a new job and he wasn't paid back for his unemployment like federal workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be over when the 2026 health insurance costs come out and the fertilizer hits the fan. That's when non-furloughed people wake up.

Exactly right. So many people don't even realize they are benefitting from ACA subsidies or even know they are on an ACA plan.

Well half the country is illiterate and prob got signed up by an NGO

[Anonymous]

You don’t have 3-6 month emergency savings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel terrible for people who have been furloughed, but we didn't get any relief from taxes or bills and certainly no special loan offers when my husband lost his job last year. We just had to dip into our savings. It took him six months to find a new job and he wasn't paid back for his unemployment like federal workers. [/quote

I’m sorry. I’ve been through that too.

I was only ever a GS-13 and always managed to have 3-6 months savings including while my husband was I employed.

I’m no longer a fed (not my choice) and so would love to be on furlough right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tax is due in December. When is this going to be over?

People with mortgages pay their tax into escrow a little bit every month: tax day doesn't change your monthly payment at all.
If your house is paid off (congrats) you are hopefully saving the same way, not planning to cash-flow your property tax out of your December paycheck. That would be odd.

I really think most of these furlough posts are trolls designed to stir the pot. Normal people are not thinking about paying their property tax as an individual bill. They are thinking about paying their rent/mortgage, groceries, and childcare.